korfhage@CS.UCLA.EDU (06/01/88)
We are looking for a good equation editor. We have used MacEqn, and don't
particularly like the user interface. I have the demo disk for MathType,
and the one shortcoming is that is does not permit fonts larger than 24,
even though we have such fonts. This can be a pretty severe shortcoming for
making overhead slides, and expanding the equations in a drawing program
is not the way to guarantee consistent sizing.
Expressionist was the third equation editor reviewed in the April
MacWorld, and they mention that its large symbols don't look very good.
Can anyone tell me, though, if it can make use of user-supplied large fonts?
Has anyone out there tried to use it for overheads, and what were the
results?
Thanks.
Willard Korfhage
ARPA : korfhage@cs.ucla.edu
UUCP : {ucbvax,ihnp4,randvax,trwrb!trwspp,ism780}!ucla-cs!korfhagekorfhage@chiron.cs.ucla.edu (Willard Korfhage) (06/01/88)
One other question that I forgot to ask about Expressionist was how many
levels of superscript and subscript can it handle? MathType is limited
to just two, but on rare occasion I need three.
Thanks again.
Willard Korfhage
ARPA : korfhage@cs.ucla.edu
UUCP : {ucbvax,ihnp4,randvax,trwrb!trwspp,ism780}!ucla-cs!korfhagejdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss) (06/02/88)
I just tried Expressionist, and was able to make it display fonts up to 96 points. It allowed larger sizes, but didn't display them on the screen... It doesn't seem to have a limit on subcripting levels either, I just made and equation with 7 levels, at which point the size of the 7th level was 2 points! After that it continued to make 2point subscripts automatically. Of course you can set the point size for subscripts to be anything you like. Jim Meiss jdm@emx.utexas.edu jdm%uta.MFENET@nmfecc.ARPA -------------------------------------------------------------------------