SMath Studio

Tiny, but powerful mathematical program with WYSIWYG editor and complete units of measurements support.

It provides numerous computing features and rich user interface translated into about 40 different languages. Application also contains integrated mathematical reference book.

Application can be easily extended based on your needs. Built-in Extensions Manager tool allows to get access to hundreds official and third-party resources of the following types: usage examples, plug-ins, SMath Viewer based applications, snippets, interface translations, interactive books, handbooks and tutorials.

List of changes (between 0.98.6515 and 0.98.6606 versions)

Improvements

• SS-174 Equations rendering logic rewritten to use vector-based drawing for operators and parenthesis to implement better quality of visualization and printing;
• SS-48 Added ability to configure formatting of every type of the equation entries (font, size, color, etc.). See "Tools" > "Options" > "Equations formatting";
• Variable/function/unit name index uses smaller font size now;
• Silent mode output updated to display current CLR version used to run SMath Studio;
• SS-2434: Loading speed and stability significantly improved;
• Splash screen made movable and can be closed by doubleclick now;
• Added ability to accept Enter button as a selector of suggested value within Dynamic Assistance list if user explicitly did a search within a list using mouse or keyboard;
• Number is always shown before unit after numeric calculation. Unit is always follow "1" if no other number available;
• Image is now put into the Clipboard on Regions copy, so it can be used by any program where image is acceptable object to paste;
• Cursor becomes hidden when user starting type from keyboard and displays back again if any mouse action detected (to prevent situations when cursor overlaps text on the Worksheet);
• Inserting parenthesis after the number automatically adds multiplication operator;
• Dynamic Assistance items appearance improved (to respect fonts style changes for the worksheet elements);
• SS-14: Added ability to specify vector/matrix elements using vectors as indexes in definition (vector valued indices);
• Performance improved for some cases when working with matrices;
• Support for vector as index for variable definition improved;
• Square brackets added for range functions;
• Worksheet painting performance significantly improved;
• Significant figures mode setting introduced (using equation context menu: Decimal places > Significant figures mode or global setting into Options dialog);
• Text antialiasing enabled for all Regions containing text inside Worksheets;
• Performance of vector/matrix elements definition improved;
• Comparing of number with infinity is now supported;
• Numeric engine performance improved;
• Pages mode of worksheet visualization implemented (in test mode temporary; press Ctrl+Alt+L to activate);
• Page Setup dialog improved to allow drawing a grid on print out;
• Default view selection added to Options dialog (Printing bounds will be temporary used for this purposes).

Corrections

• SS-3477: Plug-in name restored into Dynamic Assistance tooltip;
• Inserting of a digit right at start of the unit, function name or parenthesis do not leads to incorrect unit or function name anymore;
• Note about required application restart removed from Options dialog;
• Save to EXE using full version of SMath Viewer (using unique activation code) restored;
• SS-3490: Support for drawing operators on Linux restored;
• Glitches while drawing parenthesis fixed;
• Drawing of for(3) function fixed;
• Drawing of definition operator (:=) fixed;
• Priority to use .Net 4.0 instead of 2.0 restored for the application;
• SS-3490: Equations rendering support improved for Linux;
• Rendering of range(3) and for(3) functions corrected;
• Rendering of the factorial symbol corrected;
• Restored functionality when parenthesis shown bold when cursor is on them;
• SV-3489: Plug-ins recursive references resolving enabled;
• SS-2421: Cloning region(s) in the same place as initial one(s) avoided;
• SS-2441: Debugging exception happens in some cases when working with units fixed;
• SS-3479: Application crash in some cases for systems with DPI less then 96 fixed;
• SS-3482: Displaying of number of arguments in Dynamic Assistance list for functions with substring fixed;
• SS-64: Support for non-standard DPI improved (splash screen, overlapping regions on worksheet open, worksheet grid drawing, etc.);
• SS-3485: Results of symbolic calculations of 1x1 matrix normalized with ones produced by numeric engine;
• Symbolic factorization improved when working with matrices/vectors;
• SS-3483: Caching of numeric calculations results improved;
• SS-2438: Ranged indexes of function and other complex values is now supported;
• Cases when mouse cursor is hidden on modal dialog display fixed;
• Error message corrected when trying to set vector/matrix element into incorrect position;
• Incorrect size of operators because of non-standard DPI fixed;
• Requirement for additional parenthesis removed for range() functions (as square brackets are now always drawn);
• Side Panel images for matrix and range functions corrected;
• Matrix contains invisible rows/cols drawing improved;
• SS-1250, SS-3455: Exported/imported files do not affect on the worksheet name/path/status anymore;
• SS-3491: Translation of items of Insert menu after program interface language change is fixed;
• SMath Viewer improved to support .Net ver. 4;
• SS-3476: Printing bounds drawing corrected to make them always visible if turned on;
• Rendering of for(3) function corrected;
• Significant digits Region setting is now respected within changes history.

Miscellaneous

• SMath Studio switched to use .Net 4.0 when it is available;
• Text colors and sizes related refactoring;
• Interface translations updated;
• Equations formatting setting removed from Options dialog;
• Refactoring;
• Drawing of equation respects variables/functions styles even if it doesn't contain anything to calculate.

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• Desktop (Windows):
  Framework: .NET Framework 2.0 or higher
  
• Desktop (Linux):
  Framework: Mono 2.0 (libmono-winforms-2.0-cil package) or higher

• [ARA] Arabic / العربي
  
• [BEL] Belarusian / Беларуская
  
• [BUL] Bulgarian / Български
  
• [CAT] Catalan / Català
  
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• [CHT] Chinese (Traditional) / 簡體中文
  
• [CPP] Portuguese (Brazil) / Brazil (Português)
  
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• [DAN] Danish / Dansk
  
• [DUT] Dutch / Nederlands
  
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• [UKR] Ukrainian / Українська

SMath Studio tutorial by Bernard Liengme.

• SMathPrimer.pdf (Date: 11.11.2011. File size: 2.06MB) - to open in Adobe Acrobat Reader

Introduction of the use of SMath Studio by Gilberto E. Urroz, Ph.D., P.E.

• SMathStudio.0_85.Article.Eng.pdf (Date: 23.09.2009. File size: 828.96KB) - to open in Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
• SMathStudio.0_85.IOFiles.Article.Eng.pdf (Date: 27.09.2009. File size: 453.24KB) - to open in Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
• SMathStudio.0_85.NumericFunctions.Article.Eng.pdf (Date: 18.10.2009. File size: 622.45KB) - to open in Adobe Acrobat Reader
  
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SMath Studio icons () of all available sizes (16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64, 96x96, 128x128, 256x256) in PNG format.

• SMathStudio.Icons.zip (Date: 12.04.2010. Size: 63.74KB)

Great work, Andrey!

Just some observations:

The excel file plugin won't load.

If you move a region with the mouse, it sometimes vanishes. For the attached sheet this is particularly reproducible. It seems to be limited to moving regions upwards. Downward move never remove a region.

Recovery from such deletions is just by Ctrl-Z.

Sorry this example requires Maxima. Perhaps it is related to Maxima, but non-Maxima regions are affected as well.

File not found.File not found.

The new page view isn't just a page view, it also wraps region and as such changes the formatting of the document.

Thank you, Martin.

Yes, I can confirm there are some issues appears because of collapsed areas. It is regarding moving regions and drawing red cursor. I will address these issues asap.

Regarding new way of positioning regions with a page view: yes, there is another approach used for regions locations - they always should be fully visible within a page (with some exceptions). But please, note: view used during work with a worksheet always stored as a part of this worksheet. So, if you have created a worksheet without new pages view turned on, then your program will always show it as you expected. Of couse if someone have designed a worksheet as pages, then you will open these worksheets in pages view automatically (doesn't matter what global setting you use for your copy of SMath Studio).
That means your document will never be broken because of the worksheet view you (or someone else) are using. But of course program always allow you to switch between view modes - you just need to understand that such a switch may result in different number of pages on print out (again, you can switch it back to restore initial regions layout).
The main idea here is that view switching is safe operation and you are able to play with it without any worries to break a document. But it introduces something new, which may be important for some users.

Pages view is always good thing because now I have prepared everything (almost) to start implementation of full functional user defined headers and footers. For me this is a starting point to make SMath Studio better in documents visualization and interaction.

Best regards.

Nello Andrey,

Ihanks for the explanations. I was irritated by the coupling of two features, which as well be could have independent settings,
1. Page view with margins and (possibly later) the headers and footers
2. Page wrap of regions
If I want to prepare a document for printout, page wrap is great. But I don't necessarily need a top and bottom margin preview then but rather would benefit from seeing more regions at once on screen. I'd check the margins or headers and footers just occasionally before printout or otherwise publishing a sheet. Thus, the rigid coupling between the two doesn't seem natural to me.

Of course, a realistic and editable preview of the margins and decorations is much better than the old style print preview in the File menu.

Given the attention which document formatting currently receives, I guess that there are more features in the pipeline like some integration of a rich text region with line wrap, section header styles and the like...

BTW I don't agree with other user's statement that formatting is the major advancement in the new stable release. To me, it's the use of indices and index vectors in assignments, much like the Mathcad range variables. In fact, there is good reason to revisit legacy sheets and make them more readable using this new feature.

As to the formatting:
I like the units being upright instead of italic now and flawless scaling or zooming is great.
I am not so convinced of the small font subscripts, as they force me to use a larger base font or a higher zoom level to be able to read them with my bad old eyes. This againg goes at the cost of the viewable section of the document on screen. How about a viewing option: small text subscript? Vector indices aren't small anyways and I hope they never will be.

Best regards, Martin

I see this listed in the changes:

"Added ability to configure formatting of every type of the equation entries (font, size, color, etc.). See "Tools" > "Options" > "Equations formatting""

However in my Tools > Options menu, I only have tabs for "Interface" and "Calculation". I also see nothing in regards to "Equations formatting" under these tabs.

Is this an error or am I missing something?

Thank you.

Wrote

I see this listed in the changes:

"Added ability to configure formatting of every type of the equation entries (font, size, color, etc.). See "Tools" > "Options" > "Equations formatting""

However in my Tools > Options menu, I only have tabs for "Interface" and "Calculation". I also see nothing in regards to "Equations formatting" under these tabs.

Is this an error or am I missing something?

Thank you.

The changelog is an automated cumulative list of the changes since the latest stable version; in the miscellaneous part you can see that the feature you mentioned was removed:

Quote

Equations formatting setting removed from Options dialog

Is there any way to open Smath with a default paper size?
Since I use A4, everytime I open Smath I have to change paper size from Letter to A4.
I looked settings file, regedit etc. Couldn't find anything related to this.
Maybe I didn't looked enough.

Regards

Wrote

Is there any way to open Smath with a default paper size?
Since I use A4, everytime I open Smath I have to change paper size from Letter to A4.
I looked settings file, regedit etc. Couldn't find anything related to this.
Maybe I didn't looked enough.

Regards

Nope, it is part of [SS-1235]
As for now the only way it is to save an empty document somewhere and use it as a kind of template (open it, "save as" and start coding)

Hello.

I have a problem with newly added feature: "Pages mode of worksheet visualization implemented (in test mode temporary; press Ctrl+Alt+L to activate);".
I am from Poland and in our language we have a lot of diacritic symbols which are written by using "right alt (ctrl+alt) + symbol" like for example ą, ę, ć etc. and shortcut ctrl+alt+l is used for ł.
Implementation of this feature results in accidental changes of "page mode" during normal writing.
It would be great if it could be improved.

Best Regards.

Wrote

Thank you, Martin.

Yes, I can confirm there are some issues appears because of collapsed areas. It is regarding moving regions and drawing red cursor. I will address these issues asap.

I have worked a bit with documents containing area regions. The user experience really suffers from bugs because you can't move regions around even without being in margin preview mode. When you release the mouse, the dragged or cloned regions jump away.

If that can't be fixed immediately (which is perfectly ok), I'd recommend to issue a 6598-based stable version, possibly with some bug fixes but without new features, or at least re-classify 6606 as release candidate rather than as a stable version.

This would keep the trouble of testing leading/bleeding-edge development features within the group of the nightly-builds users.

Martin. These issues are already fixed and I'm preparing to release a new version with fixes within next couple of days.

Mroczak, this is temporary shortcut. Next release will have better switcher in the UI.

I've had the issue of moving collapsed regions break sheets. This will be of great help.

I would like to thank ALL of the developers for their work!!

Any inkling, from Mathcad on

1. integrating the Writer Region plugin so we can have some formatting out of the box
   
2. "shading" the page to see blank areas. MathCAD it is "view --> Regions" (Easier on the eyes/screen, and still prints white)
   
3. insert/delete lines (helpful with inserting images and deleting too much unused space quickly)
   
4. be able to change default units (sorry, I live and work in the US. I wish we would just go metric already )
   
5. updating the PDF files/help guides for the new features. Forums are great but for some reason, my links/favorites are broken. I thought some of the items might be documented in the help Wiki and it's not
   
6. equation "wrap" for long equations

It appears as if Text Region Utilities plugin is not compatible with this version

Unfortunately, I've been on site more than designing lately and need to get back into updating files with new features!!!

Save as PDF seems to be broken. Works in 6598

Error message something like object reference not pointing to an object instance.

Fixed in 6611.

Good Day,

Not sure when it happened but somewhere between the prior stable release and now the page layout for SMath is messed up on my PC.

Try opening this file in current and previous stable release to see the difference.

Is this a known issue?

CHBDC-DevelopmentLength&Splice.sm (109 KiB) downloaded 172 time(s).

Regards

Wrote

Is this a known issue?

Compared between 0.98.6179 and 6606/6611 - do not see any differences (except font style of equations, of course).
Please could you describe what is wrong exactly (maybe with screenshots)?

Best regards.

Wrote

Wrote

Is this a known issue?

Compared between 0.98.6179 and 6606/6611 - do not see any differences (except font style of equations, of course).
Please could you describe what is wrong exactly (maybe with screenshots)?

Best regards.

Hi Andrey,

I have printed both versions to PDF; font size set to 8.

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Hello Alex.

Wrote

I have printed both versions to PDF; font size set to 8.

I've investigated this and answer is pretty simple. You have non-standard DPI on the machine where you created this worksheet and all previous versions of SMath Studio was not able to work correctly on such machines. Unfortunately.

But latest versions of SMath Studio allows you to work with no matter what DPI is set on your PC. Result will always be the same.

Please compare those regions with blue background you have added before exporting to PDF. Do you see strange spaces with 6179 build? This is exactly because old versions of SMath Studio had bugs related to DPI.

So, I would suggest just to fix layout for the documents you have. Starting from now you will never see such issues (I really believe so).

Sorry for inconvenience, but DPI related bug was really hard to fix and it was very annoying.

Best regards.

Wrote

Hello Alex.

Wrote

I have printed both versions to PDF; font size set to 8.

I've investigated this and answer is pretty simple. You have non-standard DPI on the machine where you created this worksheet and all previous versions of SMath Studio was not able to work correctly on such machines. Unfortunately.

But latest versions of SMath Studio allows you to work with no matter what DPI is set on your PC. Result will always be the same.

Please compare those regions with blue background you have added before exporting to PDF. Do you see strange spaces with 6179 build? This is exactly because old versions of SMath Studio had bugs related to DPI.

So, I would suggest just to fix layout for the documents you have. Starting from now you will never see such issues (I really believe so).

Sorry for inconvenience, but DPI related bug was really hard to fix and it was very annoying.

Best regards.

Thank you Andrey, glad this was fixed - i will update my worksheets