On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:35:21PM +0100, Frank King wrote: > Dear Doug, > > I am so riddled with prejudices about type-setting > equations, and mathematics in general, that it is > hard for me to give a temperate reply to your > enquiry... > > > Material often comes ... in Word, and it seems > > that equations do not transfer reliably. > > In my view, the Microsoft Equation Editor that > goes with Word is an utter abomination but I'll > end the rant there before I get carried away! > > Again, in my view, Donald Knuth was the first > person really to understand the subtleties of > type-setting Mathematics and it took him about > 10 years to come up with a definitive answer, > which is TeX and its derivatives.
If you're on a Mac you can use LaTeXiT. It takes some of the awkwardness out if you only want to set equations. http://ktd.club.fr/programmation/latexit_en.php Karl --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
