Abstract
Mathematical expressions are pieces of structured information that could benefit from direct-manipulation approaches for document authoring. Yet, not only there is disagreement on the behaviors of authoring tools, but also these behaviors are often ill-designed and poorly implemented. This situation leads to dissatisfaction amid users who prefer more classical editing approaches.
In this paper we compare the behaviors of several state-of-the-art editors for mathematical content and we try to synthesize a set of rules and principles to make the authoring experience pleasant and effective.
This work was supported by the European Project IST-2001-33562 MoWGLI.
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Padovani, L., Solmi, R. (2004). An Investigation on the Dynamics of Direct-Manipulation Editors for Mathematics. In: Asperti, A., Bancerek, G., Trybulec, A. (eds) Mathematical Knowledge Management. MKM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3119. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27818-4_22
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