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CactusMan
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### Alternative to MathType?

Does anybody know of an alternative to MathType for putting equations into documents?
Last edited by CactusMan on May 10th, 2006, 10:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.

rmeenaks
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Joined: May 1st, 2006, 2:31 pm

### Alternative to MathType?

What is wrong with MathType???Ram

lballabio
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Joined: January 19th, 2004, 12:34 pm

### Alternative to MathType?

LaTeX. It's got a bit of a learning curve though.

ppauper
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Joined: November 15th, 2001, 1:29 pm

### Alternative to MathType?

what is the document written in ?I'm guessing MS Word because you wouldn't be asking if it were in TeX or LaTeXMicrosoft Word Equation Editor

CactusMan
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Yeah, it's Word.Nothing's wrong with MathType, but I'm findng it listed for about $130. I wondered if there might be a cheaper one. ppauper, I find Equation Editor is not good for long text strings. I read somewhere that it wasn't designed for text of more than 10 positions. Last edited by CactusMan on May 14th, 2006, 10:00 pm, edited 1 time in total. tibbar Posts: 554 Joined: November 7th, 2005, 9:21 pm ### Alternative to MathType? latex, or openoffice's equation editor (which is really nice) CactusMan Topic Author Posts: 2990 Joined: October 27th, 2005, 8:26 pm ### Alternative to MathType? I've never used LaTex with Word. How do you do it? How to get the software? mj Posts: 3449 Joined: December 20th, 2001, 12:32 pm ### Alternative to MathType? one way is to use texpoint which is a latex plug in for powerpoint and then cut and paste the equations into word ppauper Posts: 70239 Joined: November 15th, 2001, 1:29 pm ### Alternative to MathType? QuoteOriginally posted by: CactusManYeah, it's Word.Nothing's wrong with MathType, but I'm findng it listed for about$130. I wondered if there might be a cheaper one.on my pc, running linux, I use staroffice to produce word-type files StarOffice is $69.95.StarOffice runs under windows also.StarOffice contains an equation editor, which I've never usedStarOffice/OpenOffice Equation EditorPerhaps someone who's used this editor would care to comment ?Like most here, I use LaTeX for mathy stuff, but there are occasions when documents have to be in word format, and for that I use StarOffice. MikeCrowe Posts: 388 Joined: January 16th, 2006, 8:20 am ### Alternative to MathType? wow thye really hiked their prices, I bought it not long back for$49 i think it was.Have you tried the free trial? I did the trial and then bought it through that. Don't know if that makes it cheaper.

CactusMan
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Posts: 2990
Joined: October 27th, 2005, 8:26 pm

### Alternative to MathType?

Yeah, I'm trying it right now.

rmeenaks
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Joined: May 1st, 2006, 2:31 pm

### Alternative to MathType?

I know this is old, but MathType can be used in freeware mode as well and it is better than Equation Editor...Ram

BobJefferson
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Joined: September 14th, 2005, 2:39 am

### Alternative to MathType?

Hi I know and used a very good alternative in my dissetation thesis which is Scientific Word. It´s a user-friendly software where you can have an excellent editor for complex formulas. it´s based on LaTex but you don´t have to program it. It´s a "powerful Word" with an excellent formula editor.Regards

wolf87
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Joined: August 17th, 2006, 9:37 pm

### Alternative to MathType?

My department uses Scientific Workplace for its lab computers. Very impressive package - it's Scientific Word with a CAS added in. For example, you type in function, select Jacobian, and get fully formatted matrix in LaTeX. Saves time for a lot of thing.

Errrb
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Joined: December 17th, 2002, 4:18 pm

### Alternative to MathType?

There is MikTex windows version of all animals Tex, Latex, etc.In my opinion it is much better for long equations with similar structure, you can define macros etc. MathType is a disaster for complicated stuff
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