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From: lauriekl@microsoft.UUCP (Laurie KLEINER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: WYSIWYG equations.
Message-ID: <73043@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 18:01:09 GMT
Reply-To: lauriekl@microsoft.UUCP (Fuzzball)
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In article <16498@reed.UUCP> barry@reed.edu (Barry Smith) writes:
>In article <10983@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>>Is there a package that makes WYSIWYG equations to the same quality
>>as LaTex??
>
>Well, there's LaTeX... and Textures, for the Macintosh.  If by "WYSIWYG",
>you mean the screen display accurately reflects the printed result, I don't
>think you'll find any better.  (And you can copy from the screen display
>and paste into other applications, given the proper fonts, etc.)

A little known fact:  Microsoft Word 4.0 has formulas - a feature that
allows you to build complex mathmatical formulas.  You build the formula
in 'show paragraph marks' mode, and view what will actually print in 
'hide paragraph marks' mode (toggle from one mode to another with 
command-Y).  

For example, 1/square root(x^2 + 5) (pretend that this looks pretty, on
the right levels, etc) would be \f(1,\r(x\s(2) + 5))   
(side note, "\" stands for the key combination (command-option-\)). 

Really, it's easy.  Page 98 in the reference manual.

_________
Laurie Kleiner
"Hey, I just work here."
lauriekl@microsoft.com