MathType is a Microsoft Word plugin (on both Windows and Mac OSX). It worked very well for me. http://www.dessci.com/EN/products/mathtype/
Best, Steven On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:09 PM, James Stroud <xtald...@gmail.com> wrote: > I didn’t see the following solution in any other responses. It’s probably > the most reasonable one given the constraints of collaboration and > publishing. > > In the absence of using the best software, I found it practical to write > the equations in MathType and save them as MathType PDF equations and then > add these equations to the document. It is a portable, cross-platform-ish > solution. Others only need to install a MathType player, which is free. The > advantage is that if your equation gets hosed in the document, you still > have the original, editable equation in the PDF. In such cases, you must > re-embed it in your document, but it’s better than fully rewriting it. > > With that said, if you want to work behind a full-featured word processor > and have access to the wonders of TeX typesetting, LibreOffice (OpenOffice) > + TexMaths is the best for the author during preparation of a manuscript. > At this point it is bug free (to my experience), embeds vector equations > (SVG) or raster (PNG), is editable, and looks spectacular both when editing > and when publishing/printing. > > The downside is that you have to collaborate with people you can’t force > into using the best software. Worse, journals seem to use proprietary > publishing software and they want MathType or equation editor with > Microsoft word, hence my first solution. > > James > > > > > On May 18, 2015, at 5:10 AM, Keller, Jacob <kell...@janelia.hhmi.org> > wrote: > > > There is the possibility of using one of the open-source versions, like > openOffice, but those I guess also have their issues. > > > > JPK > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of > Randy Read > > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 4:11 AM > > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > > Subject: [ccp4bb] Equation Editor woes with Office 2011 for Mac > > > > Rather off-topic, but maybe someone on the list has found a way to work > around this! > > > > There's a problem with the Equation Editor in Office 2011 for Mac (i.e. > the one that is based on a stripped-down version of MathType, which you get > with Insert->Object->Microsoft Equation). You can insert an equation, > re-open it and edit it several times, and then suddenly (and seemingly > randomly) the equation object will be replaced by a picture showing the > equation, which can no longer be edited. I'm writing a rather > equation-heavy paper at the moment, and this is driving me crazy. > > > > This seems to be a known bug, which has existed from the release of > Office 2011. Apparently it happens, unpredictably, when an AutoSave copy > of the document is saved, so you can avoid it by turning off the AutoSave > feature. The last time this drove me crazy, several years ago, I did try > turning off AutoSave. For a while, I was very good about manually saving > frequently, but I got into bad habits and eventually Word crashed after I > had worked for several hours on a grant proposal without manually saving. > So I turned AutoSave back on. > > > > At the moment, the least-bad solution seems to be to turn off AutoSave > while I'm working on a document with lots of equations and then (hopefully) > remember to turn it back on after that document is finished. But it would > be great if someone has come up with a better cure for this problem. > > > > No doubt someone will suggest switching from Word to LaTeX, but I need > to be able to collaborate on paper-writing, and even though I might be > willing to invest the effort in learning LaTeX, I can't really expect that > of my collaborators. Most people in our field do use Microsoft Word, > regardless of its failings. I've also tried using the professional version > of MathType, but that requires your collaborators to install it as well - > and I don't think that cured the equation to picture problem anyway. > > > > Thanks! > > > > ----- > > Randy J. Read > > Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge > > Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Tel: +44 1223 336500 > > Wellcome Trust/MRC Building Fax: +44 1223 336827 > > Hills Road > E-mail: rj...@cam.ac.uk > > Cambridge CB2 0XY, U.K. > www-structmed.cimr.cam.ac.uk > -- Steven Chou
