Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!uci-ics!truesdel From: truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Word 4.0 and Expressionist Keywords: inline text Message-ID: <260ACCF5.11170@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 24 Mar 90 01:27:17 GMT References: Distribution: comp Lines: 31 jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Brest) writes: >When pasting Expressionist formulas into MS Word 4.0, they all are >raised several points above the baseline. I think that I'm using the >Expressionist preferences for Word. Has anyone had this problem and >solved it any way other than just manually lowering each formula in >Word? Word is hostile towards anything pasted from non-Microsoft programs. It mangles MacDraw horribly. The Expressionist docs state flatly that Word is hostile towards it. Anyway, MathType seems to do a better job than Expressionist for the times I've seen people use it for creating professional output. But seriously, in all honesty, TeX blows them both away as far as professional output quality goes. I forget about Expressionist, but MathType allows you to output TeX input code. It is very interesting to print out the exact same formula generated from the exact same program; print one from within MathType, then export the same file to TeX. Everybody, EVERYBODY, from rank laypeople to heavy-duty math theorists instantly select the TeX output as superior. Generated by the SAME PROGRAM, folks. Oh well... --scott -- Scott Truesdell