MathPad is a utility provided free with MathViews. It provides additional convenience and flexibility. Several files can be brought into MathPad, in separate windows, simultaneously. (In MathViews, or the Windows Notepad utility, only one file at a time can be viewed.) This makes it easy to compare files and to cut and paste between them from window to window.
Additional menu functions are also available for editing, string searches, and printing. The menu items available in MathPad include those listed below. Those that are not availabe in MathViews are in bold type.
File
New
Open
Save
Save As
Printer Setup
Short Menus
Edit
Undo
Cut
Copy
Paste
Delete
Select All
Word Wrap
Search
Find
Next
Previous
Windows
Tile
Cascade
Arrange Icons
Clear All
Open MathPad from the Mathviews application group as you would any Windows application.
To move the cursor to the beginning of the current line: Press Home. the end of the current line: Press End. the beginning of current document: Press Ctrl+Home. the end of current document: Press Ctrl+End.
From the Search menu select Find. When the dialog box appears, type the string you are looking for in the space provided. You can specify whether or not the search should ignore the case (upper or lower) of the letters characters you are searching by selecting or not selecting the Match Upper/Lower Case box. You can search forward or backward by selecting the Forward or Backward button. When you have made your selections, select OK. If you want to abort the search, select Cancel.
Word wrap prevents the text in the file from going beyond the borders of the windowno matter what size you have made the window. The wrap can occur in the middle of a word. The wrap feature has no effect on the actual text in the file itself To begin a new line, you must press the Return key. The item is a toggle. select it to activate the feature, and select it again to deactivate it.
It is important to note that MathPad is a text editor, and as such it saves file created or changed in MathPad as text files with the .txt extension.Notes If you change or create an M-file in MathPad be sure to save it with the .m extension
a. Activate the window containing the file you want to print. b. From the File menu, select Print. c. To change the default settings for Paper Source Paper Size Number of copies Orientation (of paperPortrait or Landscape): Open the File menu and select