Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!fs285119 From: fs285119@seas.gwu.edu (Scott Cherkofsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Equations - better way than Word? Message-ID: <2461@sparko.gwu.edu> Date: 16 Dec 90 20:10:26 GMT References: <1990Dec16.205059.2706@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> Reply-To: fs285119@seas.gwu.edu () Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C. Lines: 38 I use a nice little DA called Expressionist to write equations in. It is very good, has lots of options for the type of characters you will be writing, For Example, the are sub/superscripts, both at the same time, or one at a time There are multiple special characters (symbol font) along with options like special parenthasies, uderscoring, over scoring (like H bars) as well as fractions, square roots, you name it, this thing has got it. It also allows you the option to print to an imagewriter OR a laserprinter (the type comes out better if you use the appropriate option - printing in postscript for the laserprinter). The main way the DA works is to allow you to make the equation by adding the special blocks you want (fraction, square root etc.) and then when you have finished you can either copy them as text to the application you want them in or you can copy them as a PICT to the application - I like to copy them as a PICT file, that way I can scale them without messing up the formatting. I give this program the thumbs up definitively. four stars, four mice and all the fireworks! If you would like to purchase this pearl, here is the address (may not still be valid as I received this back in '89. Allan Bonadio Associates 814 Castro St. #60 San Francisco, CA 94114 (415) 282-5864 I hope this helps you out. Scott -- Scott Cherkofsky "One thing I have learned in long life: That George Washington U. all our science, measured against reality, fs285119@seas.gwu.edu is primitive and childlike - and yet it is ME Student the most precious thing we have." - A. Einstein