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From: ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu (D. Daniel Sternbergh)
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Subject: Re: Applications that create mathematical formulae
Summary: Plug for MathType and terrific PD fkey recently obtained.
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Date: 26 Aug 90 22:22:39 GMT
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In article <LEGLER.90Aug25141357@masig2.masig1.ocean.fsu.edu> legler@masig2.masig1.ocean.fsu.edu (David M. Legler) writes:
>
>    Does anyone know of any applications out there whose sole purpose is to
>    create mathematical formulae for inclusion to the word processor of your
>    choice. I recall this one program called MathWriter that allowed for
>    very EASY generation of formulae, but I can no longer find it.
>
>I have used MathType and it works well for us.  Basically it allows
>you to select the symbols and the placement in a "hot-key" style (no
>explicit copy-paste step needed...hurray).  Once your equation is
>finished, just copy-paste the whole equation into your Word document.  

Our group has used MathType for several years and I really like v 2.0
a lot.  It is still a little buggy, and if you don't like their
"convenient" interface your screwed, since there's not much
flexibility to get around it, but I like it so I'm happy.

If you use MathType or Expressionist to copy stuff into word, there
was a fantastic fkey posted recently on comp.binaries.mac which makes
the baseline work right in Word (Word ignores the baseline information
-- too typical (is anyone at MS listening?)).  By all means you must
get it and use it -- it's terrific!  Find it on c.b.m or check sumex,
but if you can't find it anywhere I could probably send a copy of
ours.

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