Re: WORD Equation editor help needed

[Ludwik Kowalski <KowalskiL@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU>]

Thanks for the warning, Leigh (see below). My main purpose
of using MathType would be to produce GIF files for Internet
documents. They sell MathType for Windows and for Mac
platforms. Is it not reasonable to expect GIF files to be identical?
I would expect Netscape and IE browsers to display these GIF
pictures using the built-in plugs. But I will check before ordering.

Does anybody know the return policy on MathType? Last spring (?)
somebody wrote that HTML tags will be available for the Netscape
version to be released shortly. Will this eliminate the need for the
MathType tool, as a far as web documents are concerned? What is
the current status of the new version? I suppose that the IE will not
stay behind Netscape for too long, unless they decide to do it their
own way.

Leigh Palmer wrote:

> > ...It also seems to be the case that anyone else's WORD will read
> > your document, equations and all, without installing MathType.
>
> I doubt that this is the case, or at least it is not if one uses a
> Macintosh. It will work if the font "MTExtra" is installed. If you
> are trying to read MathType stuff you may need additional fonts as
> well.