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Subject: Re: Mathematical & scientific characters.
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Date: 10 May 91 18:25:20 GMT
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In article <1991May6.123733.29103@epas.toronto.edu> pgiltner@epas.toronto.edu
(Phil Giltner) writes:
>
>        For a year or so, I wound up doing scientific typing at MIT,
>where I was introduced to two mac tricks for scientific/mathematical
>output. One was Expressionist, which comes as a DA & application. Just
>point & click, and it does the rest. Then just paste into your MS Word
>document, and VOILA!. This was very easy and put out terrific quality stuff.
>
>        There were others who used Tex for the Mac, which produced
>beautiful output, and I understand its out put is readily transferable
>from platform to platform. However, it isn't WYSIWYG in the input
>stage, and certainly isn't very mac-like in its interface.
>
>        But, I found many people who said the first method was very
>acceptable. It is a bit tricky playing with line spacing, but by
>customizing your menu in Word, you can make it relatively painless.
>
>Philip Giltner
>Department of History
>University of Toronto
>PGILTNER@EPAS.UTORONTO.CA
>


there is another program that you can use to mix the two metaphores...

its called MathType (from a company called Design Science). you invoke it from
a DA, but its a real application. like Expressionist, you can use it to form
equations, then copy the expression into your favorite MAC word processor. it
transfers as a PICT object. 

but the neat thing is that you can also use it to output TeX source. when you
select the equation in MathType, then COPY to the clipboard, if a switch is set
to TeX, then when you do the paste into the word processor, you don't get the
picture of the equation, but the TeX that will produce the equation.

if i were using TeX (which i don't) and had call to do much equation writing, i
would almost surely want this facility.

  ---jon---