On 09-Aug-07 23:08:54, Frank Jahnke wrote: > I am writing a highly-technical review article with a colleague who > knows only MS Word on the Mac (and so is not particularly > computer-savvy). I've agreed to use Word, for which I don't much care, > but it seems to be the only way to go at the moment. Of course I am > doing the parts that have the heavy math -- in eqn (which I would > otherwise use) this would be easy, but Word's equation editor is pretty > weak. > > Is anyone aware of a eqn plugin for Word? Or something like it? > > I know the OO.o has an equation mode that is very similar to eqn, but > I've simply not had very good luck with OO.o for these sorts of > documents when sharing with Word is necessary. > > Frank
Since replying just now, I've done a bit of Googling. The following may be worth a look: http://www.physics.uci.edu/~silverma/eqnword.html http://www.physics.uci.edu/~silverma/eqnedt.html http://www.richland.edu/james/editor/editor.pdf which includes the interesting statement: "The Equation Editor included with Word and WordPerfect is a watered down version of the full MathType editor by Design Science. There are many more bells and whistles available with the full version of MathType. Anyone doing serious mathematics writing should consider getting the full version. The academic pricing is $99. You can learn more about MathType at http://www.mathtype.com/ " And a hint at an answer to my speculation last time can be found in Wikipedia's article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Editor "Equation Editor did not significantly change from 1991 to 2007. For Microsoft Office 2007, Equation Editor has been reengineered to support a TeX-like linear input/edit language in addition to its WYSIWYG interface. It also supports the Unicode Plain Text Encoding of Mathematics (Microsoft manual: [1]). The revised equation editor is built into the document-editing part of the interface rather than being operated through a separate dialog and being treated as an OLE Object in the document. Copied equations are now in (Presentation) MathML format, so they can be pasted into other programs that understand this XML application, such as Mathematica. Conversely, MathML can also be pasted into a Word document and it will be recognized as an equation and displayed properly (as long as they don't contain MathML symbolic character entities such as &PlusMInus; -- use numeric entities instead)." The google search terms were Word "equation editor" and this may lead you to other interesting things. Good luck! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 10-Aug-07 Time: 08:53:48 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
