A scientific user feedback

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:16 PM -0500 12/5/04, Daniel Flatin wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>  Have you tried using MathType for generating the equations?
>>  (I am just wondering.  The new version of MathType for MacOS 10
>>  seems pretty nice to me.  I wonder how well its equation-objects
>  > would work with OmniOutliner .
>
>Regarding MathType, while I am pleased they are still supporting
>the Mac, and in the context of M$ Word they may be the standard,
>but if you really want nice looking equations, and if you want the
>best possible typsetting for your document, you will look elsewhere.

Uh, I'm not sure what you mean here.  I use MathType, and I do not
have MS-Word installed (or much of anything else from Microsoft).  I
mentioned it, because it can spit out a LaTeX description of your
equation, if that is what you want to use.  It can generate:

a) Plain TeX (as described in Donald Knuth's The TeX Book)
b) AMS-TeX (Plain TeX with extensions from the American
    Mathematical Society)
c) LaTeX (version 2.09 and later)
d) AMS-LaTeX (LaTeX with AMS extensions)

I am not talking about the equation-editor that comes with MS-Word.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu