"Patrick Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Friday, June 20, 2008 9:00 AM wrote: Subject: Re: Equation Editor Software
> We might be being a little unfair to Microsoft by assuming that the > oddities with equations are 'all their fault'. The following Wikipedia > article gives quite a good explanation of the problem and the companies > involved. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Editor > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > ...but one of the articles referenced in that Wiki entry says that scientific journals Science and Nature refuse to accept Microsoft .docx documents because of their use of the proprietary OMML instead of the industry standard MathML which defines how mathematical expressions should be tagged in XML. One potential solution might be to use Open Office in place of MS Office. I have been doing so for years, although it struggles on my very low spec PC. Open Office is free but generally reckoned to be as feature-rich as MS Office. Its equation editor can, as I understand it, output MathML, though it also creates a displayable/printable image. It is easy to use and can certainly handle all the mathematical expressions I've encountered in doing sundials, though I haven't any personal experience of sending its output to publishers. Chris Lusby Taylor 51.4N 1.3W --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
