If you are going to use PowerPoint or any of the Windows products I
would recommend paying an extra few dollars and getting the pro version
of MathType:
http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathtype/
It is every bit as good as TeX (or LaTeX); indeed, it spits out LaTeX
code if you want. I have a suspicion that it borrows heavily from
TeX--no proof, just a hunch. I notice from the website that it sells
for $129 with an academic price of $99. I have been using it for a few
years now with very few complaints. (It doesn't reverse colours, for
example when you want to print out slides with a dark background.)
If you are not going to use PowerPoint, then go with what Nick says.
m.p.
Nick Cox wrote:
Like quite a lot of people on this list I would generally
prefer to use some flavour of TeX (or LaTeX) to prepare text with
(or indeed without) much mathematical content. Which
implementation and which text editor one uses within
(or outside) TeX is largely a matter of taste. I've a bias to
text editors with some understanding of TeX, that is, those
supporting syntax highlighting for TeX files. These are available
in plenty for Windows OSes.
By "equation editor" you may mean some add-on software designed
to compensate for the inadequacies of word processing
software in this respect. (To be fair, does any word processor
claim excellence on this criterion?) I can't comment on those,
as I've never used any. However, I know that many people have
struggled with the fact that their word processor uses different
systems for displayed equations and in-text mathematics, so that
even on a simple level it is difficult if not impossible to use
identical fonts. That may be folklore; however,
I've never heard of a satisfactory solution to this problem
except not using a word processor to prepare mathematical
documents.
Nick
[email protected]
Mary (Merlin) Marshall
I have a collegue who teaches dynamic and thermodynamic
meteorology at Ohio
State University. His operating system is Micro$oft Win2000 (maybe
Win98). He has been thinking about using Powerpoint to teach
his classes,
but his lectures involve deriving lots of equations and he
does not have a
good equation editor. This equation editor would also be
used to generate
equations in research articles for publication in meteorology
journals.
So, I have a question for all of you using the Windows
operating system who
must write a lot of equations in your publications, lectures,
etc. What
editor would you recommend/what is your favorite editor? If you have
experience with more than one equation editor, what were the
pluses and
minuses of each?
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