ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu (D. Daniel Sternbergh) (02/27/91)
In article <3690@intvax.UUCP> mack@intvax.UUCP (Michael J. McDonald) writes: >From article <RANG.91Feb24151451@nexus.cs.wisc.edu>, by rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang): >> Is there a good equation editor around--either a DA, or a small >> application--which can save equations as PICT resources, and which can >> also save them in TeX form? It would also be great if it supported >> input of equations in TeX form, though this isn't necessary. > >MathType is the program that not only has all the features for which >you seek, but is also a great program for not only writing >equations, but (because it has very smart cutting and pasting >capabilities) is a kinda nice program for developing equations. Just for completeness it should be mentioned that Expressionist is also a good equation editor which has the advantage of interfacing well with Theorist, the mathematics package which is like Mathematica for those of us who aren't smart enough to use Mathematica's most powerful features, but want an integral to look like an integral, dammit. You can construct equations in Expressionist so they look like "Yeah, that's the thing I want to evaluate" and import it into Theorist. They were developed by the same company -- you don't suppose they planned it that way, do you? == Daniel == --------------------------- D. Daniel Sternbergh ddaniel@lindy.stanford.edu Disclaimer: I'm a happy MathType user.
suarez@aquarius.as.arizona.edu (Jose Suarez) (02/28/91)
Someone wrote: >Just for completeness it should be mentioned that Expressionist is >also a good equation editor... I, too, am a happy MathType user. There's one thing I *hated* abo Expressionist: it couldn't do double integrals correctly. That may have been corrected in a newer release, but the version I looked at almost two years ago couldn't do i. So try them out before choosing! -- Jose -- ========= Jose Suarez Internet: suarez@as.arizona.edu ========= ========= Steward Observatory SPAN: IUE::SUAREZ ========= ========= University of Arizona Ma Bell: (602) 621-4934 ========= ========= Tucson, AZ 85721 In Person: Rm 210 (bring coffee) =========
scavo@CIE.UOREGON.EDU (03/03/91)
In article <RANG.91Feb24151451@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> you write: > Is there a good equation editor around--either a DA, or a small >application--which can save equations as PICT resources, and which can >also save them in TeX form? It would also be great if it supported >input of equations in TeX form, though this isn't necessary. One other possibility is the recently released MathWriter 2.0. Equations are easy to create from the template palette, and it also has a feature that will save a document as a text file while automatically pulling all of equations out as PICTs and placing them in the Scrapbook. It can't read or write TeX, but it will filter Word 4.0 docs, equations and all, BEAUTIFULLY! MathWriter is full-featured word processor, so it may be a bit of overkill for what you have in mind. Student version is $99.95 (Professional version is $395). DISCLAIMER: I've been beta testing MW 2.0 for over a year. -- Tom Scavo scavo@cie.uoregon.edu
guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Andreas J. Guelzow) (03/04/91)
In article <1179@organpipe.UUCP> suarez@aquarius.as.arizona.edu (Jose Suarez) writes: > >I, too, am a happy MathType user. There's one thing I *hated* abo >Expressionist: it couldn't do double integrals correctly. That may have >been corrected in a newer release, but the version I looked at almost two >years ago couldn't do i. So try them out before choosing! > I am using version 2.07 (which I believe to be the newest) and it does multiple integrals just fine (I think you can't use more than 8 integral signs within a multiple integral, but that should be sufficient.) Things aren't quite as straight forward if you want to create iterated integrals that are of identical height but even that's not to difficult. Andreas Guelzow <guelzow@ccu.umanitoba.ca> P.S. I am just a very satisfied user of Expressionist and Theorist and have no other relationship to Prescience.