S+'ers
A couple of weeks ago I sent an inquiry regarding how well MathType works for
typesetting equations in MS Word. I myself much prefer LaTex, but the vast
majority of users I must interact with use Word or Wordperfect.
I received 16 replies.
12 said that MathType (http://www.mathtype.com) is the best solution for my
dilemma. Several users were perfectly happy with MT. The typeset quality is
publication-quality, although LaTeX still produces slightly better-looking
documents. The main complaint is that the point-and-click method gets tiresome
after a short while. Any reader of a MT'ed manuscript must have the non-Symbol
fonts installed. MT has remedied this problem by providing a free set of the
necessary fonts bundled into an installation program. MT will export TeX/LaTeX
(as well as MathML) but does not import it. MT is relatively cheap at $100,
academic.
3 asked me to keep the faith and continue working with LaTeX. They (and I) are
tired of continually being forced to work with dumb and dumber software. There
is
software for converting TeX to other formats (http:\\hutchinson.belmot.ma.us/tth
and http://www.gams.com/contrib/htex/htex.htm and http://www.ktalk.com/). I have
not had much success with conversion programs. (I have never used K-Talk, but
see
http://www.ktalk.com/whylatex.html).
One person recommended Scientific Word (http://tcisoft.com/Default.htm), but SW
is
a front end to LaTeX and does not interface with Word.
The direct competition to MT is K-Talk's MathEdit ($120) and Expressionist
(http://www.livemath.com/) which currently undergoing an upgrade.
I thank all who replied.
Joe
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