General ⇒ Programs to Create Calculation Templates

[pturkowski]

i'm looking for a linux program similar to Mathcad.
something that will show inline equations and perform the math based on predefines variables. even more i would like it to be able to show/hide entire sections. or maybe select what calculation are to be performed based on the information provided

it seems like LaTeX might be a good choice, only i'm not quite understanding how to get it actually perform the calculations, and i dont really like the idea of having to program everything (i'm not a programmer...)

can be also windows program, and has this all been free for commercial used it would be heaven, but if not it's also ok

[phi]

LaTeX is a typesetting program; it doesn't calculate anything.

[pturkowski]

Well maybe there's some tool to make the calculations ? Or maybe theres some LateX for python to have output as LaTeX would make it and do calculations in python ?

[calctex]

For calculations with LaTeX and TeX I'm using a CalcTeX package, this package, documentations and examples are available on http://sg.bzip.pl/CalcTeX/en.html. I'm author of this package and let me know if you have any problems. I hope CalcTeX would be supportive for you.