I don't have a huge amount of experience with programs like that but I know a few people have recommended TeXmaker to me and it seems pretty good - you can have the document in the left pane and the rendered output in the right.
In general I would say that an editor that is good for keyboard users will also be good for use with Mathfly - there is nothing particularly special about dictating since it is just emulating keystrokes.
Okay the changes in this pull request should get you started
https://github.com/mrob95/mathfly/pull/22/files
You can either re-download all the files from the new branch (https://github.com/mrob95/mathfly/tree/texmaker), switch branches using git if you're familiar with it, or manually download the new file and make the settings change. Let me know if you have issues getting it set up though.
I hope that the texmaker.py file is reasonably self-explanatory, feel free to add new shortcuts as you need them
Hello @mrob95
I have a question - I am trying to install and use mathfly following the instructions on the website. When launching dragon I keep getting one error in "Messages from Natlink":
No handlers could be found for logger „monitor.init“
I already tried reinstall Natlink, and also run "pip install dependencies.bat" , but I got the error anyway.
Thanks in advance for help.
@David_Kostak_gitlab Hi! Have you tried using any of the mathfly commands? Do they work? This may be something you can safely ignore.
If not then the first thing to try would be to make this change to the _mathfly_main.py file - moving the logging stuff before the dragonfly import. The window should then show whatever it is that is being logged
Let me know
@mrob95 Hi! Thanks for your answer and help.
Mathfly commands behaves strangely. On one hand when I use expessions as fraction, product, integral, plus or minus, Lyx writes what it´s supposed to (as math expressions).
On the other hand expressions as x-ray, equals, bravo, alpha, or numbers are written in words.
So that's both hopefull and depressing :-)
I followed your instructions. The message is now: WARNING:monitor.init:DPI awareness could not be set; it has been set already.
Which doesn´t seem to be the real problem... I will be gratefull for any ideas what's wrong and what should I try to do.
Thanks a lot.
Thank you for this awesome piece of software!
I am a disabled student studying electrical engineering online at Arizona State University.
I was wondering if there is support for Scientific WorkPlace since it is made by the same company that makes Scientific Notebook. The reason why I was wondering about Scientific WorkPlace is because it has official LaTeX support, while Scientific Notebook does not (as far as I know).
@secretsquirrel89 Have you given LyX a try? I think I tried for a while to get scientific workplace 6 to work well and found it wasn't really set up well for keyboard input, but I can't remember exactly what the problem was.
If you find that there is something you could do in workplace that you can't do it either LyX or notebook then let me know and I'll try to have another look
Very exciting to see a community dedicated to Mathfly. I currently have Caster set up perfectly on my Windows pc, where I program exclusively by voice, for my work. At this point, does anyone have any thoughts on how to integrate Mathfly into my existing Caster set up without breaking it? The Mathfly folder doesn't seem to be very big, maybe I can just move some scripts over, and install some extra dependencies?
Hi @kevindiltinero
Sorry about the broken email link - thought I had updated everywhere when I finished university (also economics :))
I don't use Caster any more (switched to Talon a couple of years ago) so haven't kept any of my scripts up to date with its development so I'm not sure what the best way of integrating it with mathfly.
If you're already using caster though then I think most of the stuff in the mathfly repo will be redundant (e.g. phonetic alphabet etc). You could probably start by just copying https://github.com/mrob95/mathfly/blob/master/mathfly/ccr/LyX.py and https://github.com/mrob95/mathfly/blob/master/mathfly/config/lyx.toml across and seeing if you can fix up the imports to get them working. That should give you most of the functionality for dictating maths into LyX
No problem at all. I'm delighted that you got in touch. Okay that's very useful. I was beginning to have similar thoughts to your last paragraph (in your above comment) the more I looked at it. Yes, I really just need to add the commands for LyX, for my use case because Caster is working great for me already.
That's very exciting that you also went through an Economics degree. Bearing in mind, I have been able to get through most of my programming work with similar tools, do you think doing the bulk of my Mathematics work is also feasible with this set up from your experience? The odd bit of handwritten rough work for brief stints wouldn't be a major issue once the core input was dictation, and I definitely have the patients at this point to tolerate dictation's imperfections generally, so I definitely know it will never be perfect. :)
Yeah it's definitely doable - I don't have any use of my hands at all and used dictation for everything (mathfly for mathematics, MS Word for essays). The only thing which I struggled with was drawing diagrams, which thankfully I didn't need to do very often :)
The University gave me (IIRC) 50% extra time on all exams because I was having to do everything by dictation but I don't think I ever needed to use any of it, so my guess is that dictating maths isn't much slower than writing it out by hand once you get fluent with it and customise commands to your liking
Please find below a step-by-step guide, for getting past some of the snags while trying to install a fresh setup of Caster. These are more so notes I wrote for myself, but it might be useful as a reference. Note that this is only Caster not Mathfly. But Mathfly is built on top of Caster.