We have some MathType users who want to create lists of equations to share. Are any of you doing that? Care to share your techniques?
Thanks,
Bob Mathews
Design Science
This is OT for Kirchhoff's Formula, but I wanted to address the use of MathType here. Being OT, I won't be offended if a moderator deletes it.
To use MathType on Physics Forums, don't paste LaTeX from MathType into the "Write LaTeX Code" block below. Instead, follow the process here...
You can't. I recommend MathJax. It's free & open source, but isn't an authoring environment; it's for displaying the math on your website. MathJax allows either LaTeX or MathML input, and works in all browsers on all platforms (including mobile platforms).
If your authors don't know LaTeX...
Karush, I'm glad you found an answer so quickly. I don't have anything to add to the answer, but I wanted to mention that there are ways to get your formula from Word 2010 into Math Help Boards so that it looks nice over here (like MarkFL's did in his reply). I'm sure you know MHB uses LaTeX for...
Jameson, thanks for following up on that. There are really 2 issues shown in my post, neither of which I believe to be MHB's error.
When viewing the forum in FF16 for Windows (and only in that configuration), the character immediately following an inline equation rendered by MathJax overlaps...
Ok, that's something I just noticed -- following the MathJax close delimiter -- \) -- even if I add a space, the space doesn't show up in the post. Wonder what happens if I add 2 spaces? Here's a shot at it: \({b^2} - 4ac
% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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Also, the "old" equation editor (aka Microsoft Equation 3.0) is still in Word 2007/2008/2010/2011, and it can be used in either .doc documents or .docx documents. To get to it in Word 2007, in the Text group of the Insert tab, click on Object. From there, it's similar to previous versions of...
"Newtonian" is right; most office apps these days can save to PDF. For conversion in the other direction though, I sometimes use PDF2Office, but if your PDF has math in it, it doesn't do a great job of that. If your PDF has math in it, consider InftyReader. It's the only OCR solution I'm aware...
If I may add an opinion here -- please stay with MathJax! The reason it looks so much better than MHF's LaTeX is because MHF's LaTeX was converted into images for rendering. MathJax uses fonts. Ackbach mentioned one advantage of MathJax -- baselined equations. Another is that the math looks...
In MathType, there's also a MathJax-LaTeX "translator". In both Windows & Mac versions, you can go to the Preferences menu and click on Cut and Copy Preferences (if your Preferences menu says "Translators" instead of "Cut and Copy Preferences", it's too old), choose MathJax-LaTeX from the list...
Just thought I'd test out some things too. Here's an inline equation \(u = \phi \cdot \exp \left\{ {{\textstyle{1 \over 2}}\sigma \left( {x + y} \right)} \right\}\) and here's a display (centered) equation \[{\rm{Bond Value}} = {\rm{C}}\left[ {\frac{{1 - \frac{1}{{{{\left( {1 + {\rm{r}}}...
I am quite sure this is caused when you click the blue Sigma (on the Ribbon) to insert an MathType equation, but when you want to put the equation into your document, you copy (or cut) and paste or drag and drop. Then when you want another equation, you click the blue Sigma again, etc.
If you...
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