OneNote should include a Mathematics Pack or Plug-in.

[LevD]

For the unfortunate few of us who take mathematics/calculus courses in
college, a Mathematics Pack for Office OneNote would be a blessing to have.
Some of the features this Pack should include:
- all the symbols used in mathematics/calculus/geometry/etc.
- various graphs, including X-Y Plot, 3D, Polar Plot, Surface Plot, etc.
- Matrix
- Functions
I have probably missed out on some of other features, but the general idea
is to create a miniature version of MathCAD (Mathsoft Engineering &
Education, Inc.) in the Office OneNote.

Thanks for your time,
Lev Danilov.

P.S. OneNote team is doing an awesome job so far.


----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...bda5-73631b52dc13&dg=microsoft.public.onenote

 

[Chris H.]

Do you happen to be on a Tablet PC? If so, take a look at the Education
Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...16-b526-487e-919d-0bce568def39&DisplayLang=en
It includes the Equation Writer which may help you. If you're not on a
Tablet PC, it won't assist you.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -

 

[Mike Davies]

Do you happen to be on a Tablet PC? If so, take a look at the Education
Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...16-b526-487e-919d-0bce568def39&DisplayLang=en
It includes the Equation Writer which may help you. If you're not on a
Tablet PC, it won't assist you.

For anything more advanced than (or even up to) "O-level" ("high-school"
? in the States) level maths, the Equation writer won't help either.

It understands sin, cos and tan + greek letters, but not nabla, partial
diffeential signs nor underscores to denote vectors/matrices not any of
the other myriad symbols used by mathematicins/physicists/engineers.

Equation writer is basically hopeless for any realistic imput of
mathematics. Apart from anything else the size of the input panel is
miniscule and the window cannot be resized. It also does not directly
export the converted maths to another program like Word but instead goes
via the clipboard (spelt slow, clunky and horrible). I suppose I
ought to say that it's better than nothing only it's not.

ISTM that this is really not just a OneNote problem but that Windows
generally, and the TabletPC in particular, needs an application that
allows easy transcription of under/graduate level mathematics.
Obviously, a prominent application for OneNote is taking lecture notes
and this omission is very marked since Maths is ubiquitous in the classroom.

Of course no external program will be much use for OneNote until it
sports technology that permits plug-ins to do their own handwriting
recognition according to their particular specialism, can anyone here
say if that is coming in the next version ?

Regards,

 

[LevD]

Hello Chris,
Unfortunatelly I'm not on Tablet PC.
The only way this, undoubtetly an important, issue could be solved is if the
OneNote team will spend some quality time in this direction.

Thanks,
Lev Danilov

 

[Mike Davies]

Of course no external program will be much use for OneNote until it

sports technology that permits plug-ins to do their own handwriting
recognition according to their particular specialism, can anyone here
say if that is coming in the next version ?

That's a "no" then, right ?

 

[PluckyMo]

I agree that this would be a great idea. I wanted to take notes on my laptop
in college, but as a math major it just wasn't practical. I have since
upgraded to MathType, but even that program is not a feasible option for
taking notes. Input is too slow. And even then, would it work with OneNote?

 

[LP]

LevD,

I find myself in a similar situation. If you find a reasonable solution
please post it. Thanks.

 

[math_christie]

I teach High school math (alg 2 - cal1) using my onenote tablet through a
projector. And we have problems doing matrices and other math symbol
format-specific problems (text breaking up, moving, and sometimes just
disappering altogether).

Question: Does anyone know if there is a specific feature that could be
disabled to keep this from happening? I didn't find anything obvious... Thks
christie

 

[Rainald Taesler]

I teach High school math (alg 2 - cal1) using my onenote tablet
through a projector. And we have problems doing matrices and other
math symbol format-specific problems (text breaking up, moving, and
sometimes just disappering altogether).

Question: Does anyone know if there is a specific feature that could
be disabled to keep this from happening?

ON2010 has an equation editor which for sure will be of help.
Download the Office 2010 Beta and install OneNote (you may leave out
the rest).

Rainald