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Swift is a graphical equation editor in Java. Look at swift in action in the image alongside. Now you can link your equation into your HTML pages as easy as it is in Word or any other word processor document. All you have to do is use the Swift Equation Editor and compose your equation and then an applet will draw it on your web page for you. At the time we write Swift, we also wrote a survey of the methods at that time for equations in HTML pages.

The Tools window that you see on top consists of tools which you can click and drop into the main equation window below.

Swift consists of two components:

Equation Editor: This is the program with a graphical user interface to create the equation. Look at screen shot above. It is written as a Java Application rather than a Java Applet. Click here if you do not know the difference :-)
Equation Viewer: This is the Java Applet, which shows the equation you have composed on the web page. It is basically a stripped down version of the equation eqitor, so that time taken to load the applet over the network is reduced.
Another reason why we did this is that, the JDK1.1.3 (Java Development Kit - used for writing java programs) makes programming much easier than the JDK1.0. But as of now no browser supports it. So we had to write the applet in JDK1.0. Since writing the editor in 1.0 would be very painful, we decided on this two pronged strategy!

You can see an applet in action alongside, if your browser supports Java applets.

Features of Swift Editor
Features of Swift Viewer
Swift Editor User Guide
Swift Viewer User Guide
Downloading Swift
Swift examples archive
Swift examples, live!!
About the authors
Swift File Format
Internal Working of Swift (Programmers only!)
Swift Source Code
If you use the Swift Equation Editor, please e-mail us at kandr@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in, so that we can send you updates as and when they are made. Watch this space for updates.