No, and Yes :-)
Cheers
On 17/01/08 7:11 AM, in article ee88e...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"John_...@officeformac.com" <John_...@officeformac.com> wrote:
> Did the new math feature from Windows Word 2007 make it into 2008 Mac?
>
> If not, is the Equation Editor essentially the same?
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<John_...@officeformac.com> wrote in message
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> How disappointing!
> I would like to know why it was not implemented, and if we can reasonably
> expect it to arrive in the next few months, as part of an update.
<snip>
Sorry Lawrence, but nobody here can answer these questions. We don't work
for MS nor do we have any insights on their intentions:-) You might try
Word's Help> Send Feedback option to voice your concerns - although you
shouldn't expect a personal reply they do pay attention to the messages.
MS Equation Editor is actually a cut-down of the MathType product from
Design Science www.dessci.com/mathtype/
Design Science provides excellent and responsive customer service in this
newsgroup. They also make a trial version of their product available for
download.
Design Science kindly points out that if you decline to pay at the end of
the trial period, the product degrades in functionality, but it DOES NOT
stop working! So you get left with a superior solution to the built-in, and
it is free :-)
There's not much that even a professional mathematician will want that the
fully-paid version of MathType can't do.
For those cases, then yes, learning TeX is useful. However, someone making
a career out of Mathematics might look around the market ã there is a range
of products available.
Hope this helps
On 30/01/08 1:43 AM, in article ee88e...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,
"John_...@officeformac.com" <John_...@officeformac.com> wrote:
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First, MathType isn't available yet for Office 2008, but we're working
feverishly on it. It should be ready by June 2008. We have some
recommendations regarding Office 2008, and you can read those
recommendations here:
http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype_mac/office2008.htm
Second, when MathType 6 for Mac is released, it will have a feature we
introduced last year with MathType 6 for Windows, and that is TeX
input. John (N), if your daughter doesn't want to learn TeX, but needs
to collaborate with colleagues and other students who are using TeX,
this is a pretty painless way to go. She can create an equation in
MathType, then export it as TeX (or LaTeX) if she wants. Likewise, she
can copy a TeX equation from another document and paste it into
MathType, and it then becomes a MathType equation. Similarly,
equations on the web that have TeX embedded into the ALT tag can be
copied from the browser and pasted into MathType for use elsewhere. A
couple of sites this applies to are Wikipedia and PlanetMath.
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Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
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