Very Computer

I typeset books for an academic publisher. Usually (because of the
subject matter) equations are rare but sometimes I *have* to do some.
Up to now I have done them 'by hand' but it's horribly complex
sometimes, and more serious equations would I suspect be impossible.

I have seen references to software that people use which acts as a
proper equation editor and produces a result which can be pasted or
linked into a PM document.

Can some kind person please offer some enlightenment as to what sorts
of products I ought to be looking at, relevant web sites, your own
comments on the situation etc etc? Is one package *? And so
on...

Thanks.

Copy and paste into FreeHand (I'm on a Mac; Illustrator doesn't support
PICTs on the clipboard), then tweak it a bit if I feel like it, and save
as an EPS.

You *can* just use OLE, but I hate OLE  >:-b  Too slow, files get huge.

Dave

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Dave Brown

Neville:
I do books for the semiconductor industry and we use MathType for
equations, it has a number of templates and mathish fonts for symbols.
Open MT and Open PM. Do the equation in MT, copy and paste into PM. The
only problem is that if the equation has an error it has to be corrected
in MT. To do that you must cut and past back into MT but only with the
pointer tool if it is an inline graphic, never with the text tool or you
will get the error message, "clipboard does not contain data" or
something similar.
Amy