Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames!dftsrv!heawk1!hoepfner From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Word processors vs typesetters (was: Why Mac output ...) Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 17:02:44 GMT References: <20225@cs.utexas.edu> <53375@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 23 evensen@husc9.harvard.edu (Erik Evensen) writes: >In article <53375@apple.Apple.COM> bc@Apple.COM (bill coderre) writes: [ ... deleted stuff ... ] >IMHO, MS Word is really bad at typesetting equations >so I use TeX whenever I need to do anything but the most trivial >writing with equations... But I use Word for easy stuff with straight >text. Also BibTeX is really cool. That is why there is MathType. MathType can make those nasty equations look nice and it doesn't require that compile, view, debug, compile, view cycle. You can not only cut and paste those equations into your favorite word processor, you can even save it as a TeX formatted equation and drop it into you TeX document saving you lots of time... This way you can get an equation that looks (IMHO) better than the equivalent one in TeX documents because you use the better looking scaled PostScript fonts! I *prefer* the look of PostScript to that of the bitmapped metafonts that TeX uses. -- Pat --------------------------------------> hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov