Enhance Your Rich Text Files: Math Symbols, Pictures, and More!

[mech-eng]

Can we enter some math symbols such as square root in rich text files? Rich text files allow lots of things such as pasting pictures and sub and super scripts.

Thank you.

 

[DavidSnider]

I'm assuming you're talking about Microsoft's Rich Text Format, and yes, it has some math symbol support. I have no idea how you use them in word pad though.

I would recommend using LaTeX for anything like this.

 

[jedishrfu]

The math symbols are limited to what's in the character set whereas with Latex you can compose equations that look like equations. Go with Latex.

Here's a Unicode keyboard where you can enter math symbols with the caveat that you are limited in its rendering capability.

http://math.typeit.org/

 

[newjerseyrunner]

No.

As said, you can insert any UTF character, some of which are math-specific, but there is no math support. LaTeX is always the best for that, but you have other options such as HTML and PDF as well.

 

[jedishrfu]

To be clear the HTML and PDF options handle the UTF/Unicode character sets but Latex and only Latex does the best rendering of fancy equations.