Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!paperboy!hsdndev!husc6!evensen From: evensen@husc9.harvard.edu (Erik Evensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted Subject: Re: Word processors vs typesetters (was: Why Mac output ...) Message-ID: Date: 29 May 91 00:27:09 GMT References: <20225@cs.utexas.edu> <53375@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Cambridge, MA Lines: 33 In-reply-to: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of 28 May 91 17:02:44 GMT In article hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) writes: 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 Pardon, my ignorance but where can one get MathType and how much does it cost? If it's free then I'll take another look at using MS Word rather then OzTeX...One other thing though, some of my collaborators still live in the mainframe and Unix world and it sure is easy for me to send them Tex or LaTeX files... --erik (evensen@husc9.harvard.edu)