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- Message-ID: <1992Nov06.172913.92068@ultramac.uucp>
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- From: bo3b@ultramac.uucp (Bob Overkamp)
- Organization: Odyssey Ultraware, Inc
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 17:29:13 CDT
- Subject: Re: Word processor that does math formulas
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- Lester Bartel sez:
- >I am in need of a cheap word processor that will allow me to write
- >fairly complex mathematical formulas (not solve them). What are my
- >options. I find that creating the formula in Mac Draw and pasting
- >them into the word processor document to be too cumbersome. What
- >are my options? I am running on a 1 Meg MacPlus with a hard disk.
- MS Word version 3 (as well as 4 and 5) as well as MS Write support the same
- collection of formula-formatting techniques, which appear in the online help
- files under
- Formulas--Mathematical Typesetting
- The possibilities include Array, Bracket, Displace, Fraction, Integral, List,
- Radical, Super/SubScript, Overstrike, Box.
- Anyone who is enough into mathematics to need to word-process mathematical
- expressions should be able to deal with the formatting-code approach that
- Microsoft developed. You have much more control (that is, responsibility) over
- the ultimate appearance than the Word 5 equation editor (or Expressionist or
- Theorist or MacEqn or FrameMaker) gives, and much better-looking results than
- using a drawing application and pasting in the PICT.
- Best of all, you should be able to buy used copies of Word 3 or Write with dox
- for $25-$50 at any used software emporium.
-