[net.micro.mac] New Equation DA

aisl@ur-tut.UUCP (Larry Landry) (12/09/85)

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I just received a copy of a new DA called MacEqn.  It allows you to create
equations within MacWrite, MS Word, etc. by pulling down a desk accesory
and then using cut and paste to get it into your document.  The program
automatically aligns the text so that it looks right.  No more fighting with
MacPaint or MacDraw to get a complicated equation to line up properly.

The program handles the following:
1) integrals, (2) summations (3)super and subsripted variables, (4) overbarred
variables and nested overbars, (5) roots and exponentials, (6) products,
(7) fractions, and (8) groups.  Groups are the author's way of trying to 
support matrices.  The author states that matrices are not directly supported
but you can get them to look right with a group and a little moving of text.

The program automatically prompts for endpoints of integration or whatever
else should be expected.  I think that this program is absolutely essential
for anyone who writes documentation with equations in it.  However, I do know
the person who wrote the DA so I may be a little biased.

The program is available from:

Software for Recognition Technologies
110 University Park
Rochester, NY 14620
(716) 461-0923

If you would like to see what the DA can do send me mail and I'll mail you
a short MacWrite file full of equations.  If enough people respond, I may post
it to the net.