How exactly can one achieve French Style Long Division?
Is line drawing/table/array formatting my only way here? I'm really new into TeX/LaTeX trying to find my way around it for elementary math, but some things leave me puzzled.
I found out there's a package called polynom to use polynomial division, but which only achieves American style long division. An array solution got closer, and xlop solution was the closest, yet issue with xlop is that you can't use subtitutional/polynomial values like AB/C (or so it seems?). MathML seems to achieve all these elementary math stuff except, well, MathML isn't as much supported yet. So until then, maybe TeX is not my solution at all, even, if so, what would I use?
Update:
Trying to define my own command in arrays I've come as close as this, though since I don't know how positioning works yet in arrays:
\documentclass{article}
\newcommand\frdiv[5]{%
\[
\renewcommand\arraystretch{1.5}
\begin{array}{l| l}
#1 & #2 \\
\cline{2-2}
#3 & #4 \\
\cline{1-1}
#5 & \\
\end{array}
\]
}
\begin{document}
\frdiv{ABC}{AB}{XY}{D}{R}
\end{document}
Best Answer
you have to use Xlop package (http://ctan.mines-albi.fr/macros/generic/xlop/doc/xlop-doc-fr.pdf)