Hello. i am trying to paste an equation i wrote in microsoft office (word) into ptc to calculate it for me.
when i press Ctrl + V it pastes the equation with comma marks and they can't be deleted. what should i do ?
It sure would be a nice feature
It, or something similar, has long been on my feature request list, including the ability to paste a standard C expression in and have it auto-convert and also to implement a Mathcad text programming language to support writing programs when one has no access to Mathcad.
I sometimes have an idea when I'm not near my laptop, eg travelling, and it would be very convenient to be able to type it up on my phone and then just copy&paste the expressions straight into a worksheet. Another use is typing up a Mathcad worksheet content when describing an algorithm in a non-Mathcad environment (eg, Project Euler, Rosetta Code, or Stack Exchange) - it is a pain doing it manually. ΤΕΧ is another option I've requested to make it easier to paste WYSIWYG equations into websites that support it (eg, via MathJax).
From your picture it appears that Prime is inserting the formula as a string. There has been some recent activity doing some text editing (#StuartBruff) that may point the way to a converter from text string to math.
From your picture it appears that Prime is inserting the formula as a string. There has been some recent activity doing some text editing (#StuartBruff) that may point the way to a converter from text string to math.
Unfortunately, what it seems to require is a parser. I've got a Lisp parser that could be tweaked to handle Polish notation. I could, I suppose, write a converter for it to deal with standard maths notation.
However, the output is the result of the expression, not the expression itself in a Mathcad-viewable/useable format.
It would be possible in Mathcad 15 by creating an XML version and using a component to create/edit a region. Regrettably, Prime doesn't (yet) have useful components. Another option might be to create an external program to handle the conversion via the Mathcad API or paste the XML into Windows' edit buffer. However, that's a lot of kerfuffle on the user's part and tramples on the concept of Mathcad as an IDE.
