DRAFT CHAPTERS OF HOPED FOR BOOK ENTITLED "CLASSICAL RELAXATION PHENOMENOLOGY"
Because of incompatibilty
issues between MathType and MS Word most of these chapters have had
to be completely rewritten at least once. I have been in
contact with MathType several
times and they have identified MS Word as the culprit (surprise!). I
have helped them slightly but the best they can do is
encourage users to complain to
Microsoft because they state on a help page that MS only listens to
users, not developers. But the number of users of
MathType is a tiny fraction of
the total number of users of Word and it has been claimed that MS
could not care less about such small markets (consistent
with my experience).
There are two issues at this time (4/17):
(1) Mathtype equations may be
displaced above and/or below text lines. This problem seemed to
emerge after MS changed its file format from .doc to
.docx. For
Word versions 2010 or later this problem can be reduced by
saving .docx formatted files as .doc files, and editing them as such,
or by
refusing
to use Word versions 2010. It is possible that the latest
Mathtype 6.9d (2/18) corrects or alleviates this problem.
(2) Equations that appear
in the document as one thing [say y = x+1] appear as something
else when opened in Mathtype [say y = exp(x)]. This is an
incompatibility
between Mathtype and Word storage formats (separate from the .doc
and .docx issue). However every equation that appears
within
Mathtype will also appear elsewhere in the document as the same
equation and vice versa, so all is not lost. It is also known
that MS Word
Autosave
should be disabled in older versions to reduce (but not eliminate)
this problem. MS's "solution" in newer Word vesions is to
not make
Autosave
the default setting - but always check this. The severity
of this problem could (from my limited experience) increase with the
number of
MathType
equations - my best solution to date is to use, as much as possible,
the Word Insert Symbol for Greek letters and simple algebraic equations.
As
a precaution I have also increased my Win7 virtual memory to 8X the
installed memory on my PC rather than the default 2X (and made the
minimum
and maximum values the same to prevent Windows spending time making
up its mind).
Largely
because of problem (2) typos may still be found in all drafts,
including final ones. Beware. On or about 4/1/18
this page may be removed
from this
site.
Chapter One Mathematics DRAFT 16 © 2018 Ian M Hodge.
Chapter Two Electrical
Relaxation FINAL DRAFT ©
2018 Ian M Hodge
This
originates from an earlier and much less detailed unpublished
paper from the 1970s that was distributed world wide by someone else
(with
good intentions but without my knowledge or permission). I could not
find the time then to check the paper so did not submit it anywhere.
A
link to an edited version is HERE
(the editing corrects detected errors in the original and
changes the original phase convention). This edited
version has never been submitted for publication because all of
the references are not recent. The references also need checking in
this draft.
Chapter Three Structural
Relaxation FINAL DRAFT ©
2018
Ian M Hodge