| Beautiful Equations in MS Word
Sharifa Smith
Software Specialist
Microsoft Word is a pretty competent word processor. Now Macintosh users
can transform Word into a state-of-the-art maths word processor and Web
page editor too!
That's thanks to the just-released MathType 5 for Mac,
a "grown-up" version
of Word's built-in Equation Editor (from the same developers) built for
Mac OS X and also compatible with OS 9.
MathType 5 comes with over 500
mathematical symbols and templates - fractions, radicals, sums, integrals,
products, matrices, various types of brackets and braces, even an exclusive
Euclid maths font set. It includes built-in translators for several
versions of TeX, LaTeX and MathML, and tools to convert your equations
into image files. And its built-in MathPage technology lets you transform
your Word documents into Web pages with elegant-looking equations.
MathType
installs a toolbar and menu commands into Microsoft Word 98, 2001 and
Word X to make it easy to insert, edit, format and number mathematical
notation. It inserts a toolbar button into equivalent versions of PowerPoint
too, so you can quickly insert an equation into your presentation.
It also works with other popular word processors such as AppleWorks and
NisusWriter, page layout programs such as QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign,
and many other products.
It's a must-have program for any Mac user
who needs to include equations in their documents, presentations and
Web pages. But Windows users needn't feel left out! Much the same features
are available in the latest version of MathType for Windows, which
supports Microsoft Office 2003. |
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