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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.text,comp.text.desktop,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,sci.math.symbolic
Subject: Re: mathematical editor
Keywords: math, editor, wishful-thinking
Message-ID: <2221@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 1 Oct 89 01:36:04 GMT
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Reply-To: wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins)
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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    Yeah, there is something roughly like what you want in a couple of forms
on the Macintosh.  
    Two programs I know of, MathType and Expressionist, allow you to create
mathematical expressions laid out properly on the page and export them to
word processing programs.

    I am not too sure of MathType's capabilities, but Expressionist allows
you to do such things as define your own symbols and even will produce
text-only output in eqn format, Microsoft Word's equation format, or TeX
format.
    When you open the Expressionist desk accessory you are faced with a
blank work area and a palette of different mathematical constructs off to
one side.  You click on, say, an integral symbol, and an integral sign
appears, allowing you to fill in boxes with limits of integration and the
integrand.
    MathType allows certain things to be done more easily, such as closed path
integrals, but Expressionist produces more pleasing output, especially on
laser printers, and has an easier-to-use interface for more basic stuff.  I
do not know who publishes MathType, but Expressionist is published by Allan
Bonadio Associates.  Both are advertised fairly regularly in MacWorld.  If
access to a Mac is not a problem, either of these packages will make you
wonder how you ever got along before.

                         -- Mark Wilkins
                            (wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu)