Mathtype For Office 2016
Typing complex mathematical equations or scientific expressions can be difficult when creating tests or writing research papers if you are using only Microsoft Word or Excel, but Mathtype lets you you can build authentic formulas appropriate for rigorous review and study.
MathType launches a compact interface with four rows of buttons for a variety of symbols, and a row of tabbed buttons categorized by type of expression: algebra, derivations, statistics, matrices, sets, trigonometry, and geometry. These five rows are arrayed over a pane for typing and manipulating the equations the user wishes to build. The design is simple and straightforward, and navigating the app's features is simple to master. This app performed very satisfactorily during our tests. Building an equation in the editing pane was a simple matter, by clicking buttons to select a symbol or using the Insert Symbol command. Copying and pasting from the editing pane into another app was a snap. We liked very much the ease in adding an expression--and even an entire category of expressions--to the row of tabbed buttons. MathType offers a number of formatting options to suit a variety of equation types. We appreciated the range of options available for customizing the app through the Preferences dialog box, and most users should be satisfied by this list of options.
Although the trial period is limited to 30 days, this time frame should be adequate for most users to determine the suitability of MathType for their work. On the other hand, the price tag may scare off all but the most dedicated users.
Dear Microsoft Team: There are enormous urgent cries from the desperate users asking Office Mac 2016 to support MathType. What are your. Word 2016 and PowerPoint 2016 join OneNote 2010 (and later) in offering a way to display equation numbers flushed to the right margin. To enter an equation number using the linear format (see Section 3.21), type the equation followed by a # (U+0023) followed by the desired equation number text and hit Enter.
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MathType 7.4 running on Windows 10 displaying the quadratic formula | |
| Developer(s) | Design Science |
|---|---|
| Initial release | June 23, 1987; 32 years ago |
| Stable release | |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows macOS |
| Available in | English, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese |
| Type | Formula editor |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | http://www.wiris.com/mathtype |
MathType is a software application created by Design Science that allows the creation of mathematical notation for inclusion in desktop and web applications.
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Features[edit]
MathType is a graphical editor for mathematical equations, allowing entry with the mouse or keyboard in a full graphical WYSIWYG environment.[1] This contrasts to document markup languages such as LaTeX where equations are entered as markup in a text editor and then processed into a typeset document as a separate step.
MathType also supports the math markup languages TeX, LaTeX and MathML. LaTeX can be entered directly into MathType,[nb 1] and MathType equations in Microsoft Word can be converted to and from LaTeX.[2] MathType supports copying to and pasting from any of these markup languages.
Additionally, on Windows 7 and later,[3] equations may be drawn using a touch screen or pen (or mouse) via the math input panel.
By default, MathType equations are typeset in Times New Roman, with Symbol used for symbols and Greek. Equations may also be typeset in Euclid, a modern font like Computer Modern used in TeX, and this is included with the software. Roman characters (i.e. variable names and functions) may be typeset in any font that contains those characters, but Greek and symbols will still use Times or Euclid.
Support for other applications[edit]
On Windows, MathType supports object linking and embedding (OLE),[4] which is the standard Windows mechanism for including information from one application in another. In particular office suites such as Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org for Windows allow MathType equations to be embedded in this way. Equations embedded using OLE are displayed and printed as graphics in the host application, and can be edited later, in which case the host document is updated automatically. In addition, a Microsoft Word add-in is included, which adds features including equation numbering and formatting displayed equations (as opposed to inline equations), which are features that MathType does not add to other applications.
On Macs, there is no analogous standard to OLE so support is not universal. Microsoft Office for Mac supports OLE, so MathType equations may be used there as usual. MathType has support for Apple iWork '09, so equations may be embedded and updated seamlessly in that product too. In applications where no other possibility is available, such as OpenOffice.org for Mac, Design Science recommends exporting equations as images and embedding those images into documents. As on Windows there is a plugin for Microsoft Word for Mac (except for Word 2008[5]), which adds equation formatting features such as equation numbering, which are features that MathType does not add to other applications. AppleWorks included a special version of MathType for built-in equation editing.[6]
For Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs, MathType supports copying to (and pasting from) HTML <img> tags (created by translating the equation's LaTeX into Google Chart API). There is a list of web application presets in the Copy Preferences dialog, so for example choosing 'Google Docs' would copy as an HTML <img> tag, whereas choosing 'Wikipedia' would copy as LaTeX wrapped in a <math> wiki tag.
MathDaisy[edit]
Design Science also markets the related MathDaisy application, which allows export of MathType to the DAISY digital talking book system, targeted at people with print disabilities.[7] It includes support for the Save As DAISY add-in for Microsoft Word.
Version history[edit]
Design Science has released the following versions of MathType:
- MathType 1.0 (1987)
- MathType 3.5 (1997)
- MathType 4.0 (1999)[8]
- MathType 5.0 (2001)[9]
- MathType 6.0 (2007)[10]
- MathType 6.5 (2008)[11]
- MathType 6.6 (2009)[12]
- MathType 6.7 (2010)
- MathType 6.8 (2012)
- MathType 6.9 (2013)
- MathType 7.0 (2018)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Design Science: MathType - Equation Editor
- ^Design Science: MathType full feature list - Type TeX in Word
- ^Design Science: Mathtype - Math Handwriting Recognition
- ^Design Science: MathType - Full Feature List - OLE
- ^Design Science: What's the story with MathType and Microsoft Office 2008?
- ^'AppleWorks 6: Getting Started'(PDF). p. 2.
- ^Design Science: MathDaisy
- ^[1], Design Science, May 4, 1999.
- ^[2], Design Science, October 8, 2001.
- ^[3], Design Science, September 12, 2007.
- ^[4], Design Science, December 2, 2008.
- ^[5], Design Science, December 17, 2009.
Notes[edit]
- ^This feature is disabled by default, but can be enabled in Workspace Preferences.
Further reading[edit]
Mathtype 6.9b Office 2016
- Foster, K.R. (December 2001). 'Mathtype 5 with mathML for the WWW'. IEEE Spectrum. 38 (12): 64. doi:10.1109/MSPEC.2001.969610.