display and manipulate math symbols?

[Jason Aubrey]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:23 AM, b. f. <bf1783 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch
>>of math symbols and arrange them on-screen?  I'm not talking
>>about a program to solve; just display.  And i think you can
>>describe things in english like "sqrt(2)" in OOo, and have that sq
>>root sign displayed.  Not that either; rather pre-drawn symbols
>>that could be moused around,
>

Can I ask why you want to do this? That might help point to a suitable
solution.  With a little work you might be able to build something
like this with jsMath or MathML.  Here's info about jsMath:

http://www.math.union.edu/~dpvc/jsMath/