I'm interested to hear that. I was alluding to MS Word.
Nick
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> Feenberg
> Sent: 17 March 2004 20:52
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> Subject: Re: st: RE: OT: your favorite math equations editor
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> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Nick Cox wrote:
>
> > By "equation editor" you may mean some add-on software designed
> > to compensate for the inadequacies of word processing
> > software in this respect. (To be fair, does any word processor
> > claim excellence on this criterion?) I can't comment on those,
> > as I've never used any. However, I know that many people have
> > struggled with the fact that their word processor uses different
> > systems for displayed equations and in-text mathematics, so that
> > even on a simple level it is difficult if not impossible to use
> > identical fonts. That may be folklore; however,
> > I've never heard of a satisfactory solution to this problem
> > except not using a word processor to prepare mathematical
> > documents.
>
> Word Perfect has had a very nice equation editor since 1989
> (version 5.1).
> It does use the same fonts/mechanism for inline and displayed
> equations,
> and it makes editing complex multilevel equations rather
> simple. You can
> write out the equation in linear format "{a sub b} over {c sup d}" and
> it handles everything. You can edit the linear form, and the displayed
> form changes to match, very much like TeX, but instant.
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