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From: philip@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough)
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Subject: Re: Summary of info received on math equation formatters
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Date: 29 Sep 90 01:55:59 GMT
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In article <1990Sep28.160114.5204@eddie.mit.edu> rabbit@eddie.mit.edu (Warren J. Madden) writes:

[summary of eq'n editors with the statement MacEqn bombs]

MacEqn does not bomb. It works fine, as does Expressionist with Write Now.
Expressionist with Write Now is nice in that the baseline is kept track of.
If I recall, MacEqn also pastes correctly into many wordprocessors.

That being said, I think it is fairly obvious that equation editors are
not the answer to the problems involved in typing documents of a mathematical
nature. The issue of in-line equations, and the very idea of an equation
being treated as a "picture" makes for editing,etc...a difficult task.

It is odd that the Mac has had to put up with this situation for such a
long time. On the PC there are several WYSIWYG math word processors. One
example is EXP. To date there is NO WYSIWYG math word processor for the
Mac, unless you consider FrameMaker2.0 which I would not classify as
such. There is hope however, as one will appear( and is VERY nice). I
can't go into anymore details at this point, but I highly doubt that the
issue of equation editors will be around much longer.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu [or here]
[my opinions]