jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Brest) (03/24/90)
When pasting Expressionist formulas into MS Word 4.0, they all are raised several points above the baseline. I think that I'm using the Expressionist preferences for Word. Has anyone had this problem and solved it any way other than just manually lowering each formula in Word? Jeremy Brest Swarthmore College jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu
truesdel@ics.uci.edu (Scott Truesdell) (03/24/90)
jeremy@cs.swarthmore.edu (Jeremy Brest) writes: >When pasting Expressionist formulas into MS Word 4.0, they all are >raised several points above the baseline. I think that I'm using the >Expressionist preferences for Word. Has anyone had this problem and >solved it any way other than just manually lowering each formula in >Word? Word is hostile towards anything pasted from non-Microsoft programs. It mangles MacDraw horribly. The Expressionist docs state flatly that Word is hostile towards it. Anyway, MathType seems to do a better job than Expressionist for the times I've seen people use it for creating professional output. But seriously, in all honesty, TeX blows them both away as far as professional output quality goes. I forget about Expressionist, but MathType allows you to output TeX input code. It is very interesting to print out the exact same formula generated from the exact same program; print one from within MathType, then export the same file to TeX. Everybody, EVERYBODY, from rank laypeople to heavy-duty math theorists instantly select the TeX output as superior. Generated by the SAME PROGRAM, folks. Oh well... --scott -- Scott Truesdell
hal@krishna.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) (03/24/90)
In article <260ACCF5.11170@paris.ics.uci.edu> Scott Truesdell writes:> >Word is hostile towards anything pasted from non-Microsoft programs. >It mangles MacDraw horribly. The Expressionist docs state flatly that >Word is hostile towards it. Word 4 mangles drawings when they are copied or cut to the clipboard. This affects Expressionist equations and MacDraw documents, among other things. Microsoft recently produced a new version of Word (4.0a) that is supposed to fix the problem. Call Microsoft and get the upgrade if you have problems like this. >I forget about Expressionist, but >MathType allows you to output TeX input code. Expressionist can also produce TeX source code from an equation. Hal Perkins hal@cs.cornell.edu Cornell CS