Issue 95720

Summary:	Computing engine for OOo
Product:	extensions	Reporter:	scls19fr <s.celles>
Component:	www	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P4	CC:	issues
Version:	680m211
Target Milestone:	milestone 1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
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Description scls19fr 2008-10-31 21:49:16 UTC

Hello, 
 
I'm trying Scientific WorkPlace under MS Windows. I probably won't buy it because : 
- it's too expensive 
- it runs only under Windows 
- it's not open source. 
 
But one feature is very usefull : having a computation engine when writing
a document. Mathcad has a similar feature (but is not really a word processing) 
 
I know some good computation engine  
for numerical calculus : Scilab, Octave... 
for formal calculus : Xcas/GIAC(*) / GINAC / Macsima or Maxima / SAGEMATH 
 
I really think that adding a computation feature can be very usefull because you
could easily change numerical values and everythings after will be changed. So
it can be usefull for writing Math/Physic exams and corrections.
I know such a feature will not be use by several people (only scientist) so I
think that it should be add as an extension.
 
Kind regards 
 
PS : some experiments was made using GIAC and LaTeX and describe at 
http://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/giac_fr.html#latex