Found an interesting potential Tablet PC application.
The Freehand Formula Entry System (FFES) is an interpretive interface for entering mathematical notation using a mouse or data tablet, implemented in C++ and Tcl/Tk (see screen shot, below). Available from this page is the second version (0.2) of FFES.
Looks like it converts right to LaTeX, Mathematica. Still working on getting it built though. Allegedly Linux and OS X only. Looks like after the grad who did the research graduated the blocking library (TXL) got released for Windows so that might be possible now. GNU’d
I have a Mac OS X powerbook sitting in front of me, borrowed from a friend but I don’t really want to fill her machine with Dev apps (Tck-tk and lots of libraries)
Both of my linux boxes didn’t like the makefile. Stable Debian looks to be having trouble grabbing the tk-dev packages (for the xlibs dep) which I’m assuming hold the required tk.h & tcl.h file.
Gentoo box complains of syntax errors during the first `make`. No idea whats wrong there.
Maybe I’ll boot up knoppix somewhere and try it on that. It doesn’t do me any good though untill I decide on, order and recieve my tablet.
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