Recent content by PaulTopping

I don't know too much about Microsoft Equation Writer but recognition of hand-written equations is difficult. My guess is that it works for very simple cases but breaks down with equations of any complexity at all. Just like speech recognition, unless it works very, very well, it is too much...

We are planning to add direct TeX input to Word and eventually PowerPoint in the next release of MathType, due in a few months. The idea is that you type TeX inside equation delimiters, perhaps $$, and then when you are done with the run of TeX, you hit some sort of Ctrl key command (or a menu...

MathType has other ways of entering equations than using the menus and palettes. There are keyboard shortcuts for all the common stuff and you can assign as many others as you like. Assuming you have set up shortcuts how you like them, it is much faster to enter than LaTeX as shortcuts have...