Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!clyde.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!guelzow From: guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Andreas J. Guelzow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Request for info on math equation formatters Message-ID: <1990Sep26.203952.13028@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Date: 26 Sep 90 20:39:52 GMT References: <1990Sep14.160536.1376@eddie.mit.edu> <1583.26f64d34@waikato.ac.nz> <12777@cs.utexas.edu> Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Lines: 49 Sender:Andreas Guelzow In article <12777@cs.utexas.edu> kelvin@cs.utexas.edu (Kelvin Thompson) writes: > >Word 4.00B does not recognize the baseline information in Expressionist >PICT resources. The same should hold for MathType PICTs, since they >supposedly use the same system. > Considering that I wrote the FKEY "Expr <-> MS Word" in an afternoon including the time I needed to figure out the picComment used by Expressionist and MathType (information that by the way is freely available from Prescience), it shows the concern Microsoft has for MS Word users. I would prefer if we would call said FKEY an MS Word bug fix instaetd an FKEy. >The FKEY mentioned above works as advertised, but doesn't solve all the >problems of pasting equations. The FKEY makes the inserted PICT a >... >However, stupid Word doesn't adjust the line spacing accordingly. >Word assumes that the equation takes up as much space above the >baseline as it would if it wasn't subscripted. This means the >... > [1] I isolate larger expressions into their own paragraphs, as > do most technincal books. I *don't* subscript these > equations -- they just sit on the baseline. They don't > line up with equation numbers and other punctuation, but > it doesn't look too bad. > > [2] I use the FKEY to paste small equations in with other text. > I only do this on equations that don't take up much more space > than the height of a line. > > [3] When reasonable, I use Word's embedded equation features. > They're okay for very simple expressions. This is by the way the exact type of work the Bug Fix was designed to support, any large expressions should be displayed anyways! >Sorry I don't remember the name of the FKEY. It does as good a job >as it can. As mentioned above, the name is "Expr <-> MSWord" and it works with Expressionist and MathType. If somebody would like a copy, simply drop me a note! >-- >-- Kelvin Thompson, Lone Rider of the Apocalypse > kelvin@cs.utexas.edu {...,uunet}!cs.utexas.edu!kelvin Andreas Guelzow (University of Manitoba, Dept. of Mathematics & Astronomy)