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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Applications that create mathematical formulae
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.034202.12087@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Aug 90 03:42:02 GMT
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In article <1990Aug25.193431.20209@csrd.uiuc.edu>,
andrews@s30.csrd.uiuc.edu (John Andrews) writes:
> I have used both Expressionist and Mathtype fairly extensively.  I think
> that Mathtype is the better product.  It allows more control, and updates the
> screen much faster than Expressionist.  Expressionist reevaluates the screen
> after EVERY key is pushed.
> 
I have another program called Formulator. I haven't used it enough to give a
proper review, but it seems to work well. It is claimed to use TeX algorithms
for layout, and includes an option to output TeX (I tried this as a way of
generating TeX in an (at least initially) human-readable form, but the
resulting TeX was even less readable than usual, so I gave up on that...).

Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu