[Blindmath] MathType, word and reading existing documents

Alysha anjeans at att.net
Thu Oct 6 21:33:18 UTC 2011


I've found that if you have even a minor syntax error in one of your 
equations, it can sometimes cause big problems with MathType and Word when 
you toggle the LaTeX mode. Maybe there's a good way of debugging LaTeX when 
entered into MathType, but I haven't found it yet.

Thanks,
Alysha
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mike chen" <m11chen at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics" 
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Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 1:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] MathType, word and reading existing documents


> 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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