[Blindmath] MathType, word and reading existing documents

Thu Oct 6 14:49:08 UTC 2011

I've used ctl-a, alt-\ several times, but my documents may be much smaller
than yours and certainly differ in structure.  If you run into problems with
MathType or other Design Science products, please send email to
support at dessci.com with as much info as you can.  Bugs don't get fixed if
they don't get reported.

Neil Soiffer
Senior Scientist
Design Science, Inc.
www.dessci.com
~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:50 PM, mike chen <m11chen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I have been composing lots of equations using LaTeX code in Word 2003.  But
> when I tried to toggle all the equation to be displayed all together at once
> by first pressing Ctrl+A and then Alt+\, the software crashes and word stops
> responding.  I almost certainly doubt this is a resource issue, as I am
> running a i7 processor with 8 GB of ram.  Is there something that is causing
> the crash>?  By they way, if I only toggle a single equation at a time,
> there seems to be no problem.  But as the amount of time goes on with
> multiple compilations, the software becomes unstable and eventually stops
> responding.
>
> I am using RTF format, but I have also tried with doc and DOCX, and also
> tried reinstalling both MathType and Word 2003 and 2007, but nothing seems
> to help.  I hope there is some way around this.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> mike
>   ----- Original Message -----
>  From: Neil Soiffer
>  To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>   Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 2:43 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MathType, word and reading existing documents
>
>
>  The TeX translators in MathType don't translate attributes such as bold,
>  italic, or color. That's true for both importing TeX into MathType and
>  exporting TeX from MathType, as well as for Toggle TeX.  If you'd like to
>  see this added to MathType's abilities, please fill out a Future MathType
>  survey at http://www.dessci.com/en/products/MathType/future.asp.
>
>  If others in on the list have other feature requests, please use that
>  survey.  The survey results are looked by the team that works on MathType
>  (which I'm not a member of). I know from discussions that I've seen,
>  people's requests are looked at quite seriously.
>
>       Neil
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:14 PM, mike chen <m11chen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > I have been trying to insert a bold and italicized letter in the
> displayed
>  > equation using LaTeX with the MathType plug-in and Word 2003.  I looked
> up
>  > online, and most suggest using the nested command
> \mathbf\mathit{mySymbol}},
>  > but I have only been able to insert the symbol either bold or
> italicized,
>  > but not both.  Is there some way of achieving this in Word 2003 with
>  > MathType?
>  >
>  > Thanks.
>  >
>  >  ----- Original Message -----
>  >  From: Neil Soiffer
>  >  To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
>  >  Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 10:33 AM
>  >  Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MathType, word and reading existing documents
>  >
>  >
>  >  The keyboard command for "Tex Toggle" alt-\
>  >
>  >  This will switch regular MathType 2d notation to TeX and switch TeX to
>  >  regular 2D notation (ie, the answer is "yes").  If someone types math
> in
>  >  using the Word math editor (which is not accessible), you can use
> "Convert
>  >  Equations" in the MathType ribbon to convert them to MathType and then
> use
>  >  TeX toggle.
>  >
>  >  Neil Soiffer
>  >  Senior Scientist
>  >  Design Science, Inc.
>  >  www.dessci.com
>  >  ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor
> ~
>  >
>  >
>  >  On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>
>  > wrote:
>  >
>  >  > Hello,
>  >  > Firstly I keep forgetting what is the keystroke for changing mathtype
> in
>  >  > word to LaTeX input mode?
>  >  >
>  >  > Also does this work for documents people have created with MathType
>  >  > equations and then sent me (IE. can I read the equations of an
> existing
>  >  > document by switching MathType to have LaTeX input mode)?
>  >  >
>  >  > Thanks
>  >  >
>  >  > Michael Whapples
>  >  >
>  >  >
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