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From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil)
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Subject: Re: Applications that create mathematical formulae
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Date: 27 Aug 90 15:45:02 GMT
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In article <3218@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) 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 am a very satisfied user of MathType and would recommend it highly.
Some of the other responses in this thread prompt me to post the following
thoughts/comments.
1. Several mentions of "crashes" or "buginess" in various of the equation
editors. No matter which one you are using, if you are using it with Microsoft
Word, be sure that you have version 4.0B of Word which fixes Word's corruption
of graphics that was the cause of many crashes that seemed to be the fault
of the equation editors.
2. The address of the publishers of MathType: Design Science Inc., 
6475B East Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 392, Long Beach, CA 90803. 
(213) 433-0685.
3. MathType version 2.11 has a translator that will produce TeX output
(there is no capability to import TeX from some other source, however,
although TeX produced in MathType can be taken back in for editing as
long as the necessary MathType header has not been deleted).

Dana E. Keil, Principal Word Processing Specialist, Department of 
Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
dana@are.berkeley.edu