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From: cpm5479@sigma.tamu.edu (Christopher Menzel)
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Subject: Re: formulas in W4W
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Date: 7 Jun 91 23:38:13 GMT
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In article <9130@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, eaton@eecs.ucdavis.edu (William Eaton) writes...
=>Does anyone have experience doing formula typesetting in W4W? I've
=>looked through the User's Reference and found the formula 'fields' to
=>be very limited. A lot of the characters that were available on Word
=>for the
=>Mac (specialized characters that don't seem to be included in any
=>fonts, such as rarrow, dagger, etc. etc) don't seem to be available in
=>W4W. 

The Mac does come with a bunch of special characters that you can
get just by hitting the option key, though they are of fairly
limited use for math formulas unless you format them with the Symbol
font, which I think comes with Mac and so sort of seems built in.
However, most all of these characters are found in the Symbol font
that comes with Adobe Type Manager, Bitstream Face Lift, etc.  With
the exception of a square box (which you can hack pretty well using
the box command for generating, e.g., matrices in W4W and Word for
the Mac), I've found most of what I need in Symbol--especially in 
light of the fact that you can scale symbols with ATM, BFL, and 
their fellows.

Chris