Re: latex and word,

Hi all-
I have noticed that MSWord's equation editor adds formatting to a
document that is difficult for any other software to edit. (I use
MSWord at work and Open Office at home). I have just started working
with LateX in cygwin (on my laptop) and in Ubuntu Linux (on my
desktop), and find that it is pretty easy to use. I've only been
trying it out for three days and can pretty much just type and produce
simple equations and statements - and the more difficult items are
built from simpler structures in a straightforward way.

William Hughes wrote:
Khodaeifar wrote:
Again, try Mathtype with Word!


It looks like a nice piece of software, but I am not going to pay that
much for it (when I can get something that looks better and is more
portable), especially when it is probably not compatible with my
preferred WYSIWYG editor (Open Office). My boss is not going to
purchase it for the lab because we do molecular biology and not
mathematics. (What little math shows up in our papers, if any, is
easily handled by MSWord's equation editor).

Tried it. Didn't like it. The good thing about using
Mathtype (or Microsofts Equation Editior, the two are
closely related, but Mathtype has a better interface)
is that you end up with things that are closely connected
to your document, and that you can edit.

The bad things are that Equation Editor is
only so so at producing nice looking equations and
quite limited. The interface (even the better
Mathtype interface) is clumsy and does not
scale well. The document format is closed.

I might count "end[ing] up with things that are closely connected to
your document" as a bad thing too (in the sense that if I get a copy of
your document, I cannot edit it), whereas with your plain-text Latex
file, I can do whatever I want with it.

Mathtype is a lot better than nothing,
(especially when producing powerpoint
presentations or when you are forced to
use word by admistrative fiat) but it
is not really a solution to writing math
documents.

- William Hughes

Of course- it depends on just what kind of 'math document' vsgdp wants
to write, and to whom he wants to send it.

cheers-
Eric

.

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