Re: [Phys-l] Grapher on macintosh

[Rick Tarara <rtarara@saintmarys.edu>]

For my purposes, Equation 3.0 bundled in Word does fine, but then again I 
may not be doing things that it can't.  There is a more sophisticated 
version that interfaces with Word but I haven't tried it.  Once you learn 
the interface, you can work reasonably fast.

Here's a hint for anyone who is used to the Office 2003 or earlier interface 
and doesn't like the Office 2007 interface to the Equation editor.  Keep a 
small file with a single equation written in Office 2003--any old document 
will do.  Save it as a .docx file.  When preparing a new document, copy the 
equation over to that new document, then right click and edit.  The old 
interface comes up.  [There may be other ways to access the old interface, 
but this has been my solution.]

Rick

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----- Original Message ----- 

> I use MathType to format all my equations in Word -- it is the commercial
> version of the basic Equation Editor program that comes bundled with many
> word-processors. It is a very nice WYSIWYG equation editor, with an option
> to format stuff sent to the clipboard as TeX. I don't need this
> functionality, but it seems to work fine. I'm not sure if you can copy TeX
> equations into MathType for editing, though.
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:43 AM, ludwik kowalski <
> kowalskil@mail.montclair.edu> wrote:
> > 3) Creating Latex input files with formulas is very demanding and
> > error-prone.