word's equation editor is really pissing me off.

thoughts? worth it?

2/10/2008 1:33:09 AM

welp, done downloading... install incoming.

2/10/2008 1:39:55 AM

i just use maple for shit like that, you can format things in it

and if i need advanced formatting/etc, you can just save the equation as a png and import it

2/10/2008 1:40:19 AM

if you don't like word's eqn editor, you're going to get pissed at LaTeX until you get over the relatively huge learning curve.

Try MathType also

I use LaTeX for 90% of my papers, including my dissertation. It's well worth it and once you use it you'll have a hard time going back to Word.

Word : LaTeX :: Algebraic : RPN

2/10/2008 1:41:44 AM

no that's not the issue. past a certain spot in what i'm writing, which i can find although i can't identify the cause, i can't change the font in equation editor.

i'll grant you that this is a minor inconvienence, and i could just change the font of the rest of my shit, but i'm angry w/ word.

2/10/2008 1:42:18 AM

MathType

integrates into Word

2/10/2008 1:44:29 AM

ok but the point is that i want to not use word.

2/10/2008 1:45:19 AM

Latex is super-useful but it takes a quite a few hours to learn
also, there aren't a lot of campus CPUs that will compile it...usually I have to use a Mac

2/10/2008 1:45:52 AM

i was going to parody this thread but can't now

2/10/2008 1:52:08 AM

gd this is taking a while to install.

2/10/2008 1:57:09 AM

Did you ever figure it out?

2/11/2008 12:15:30 PM

openoffice math...

2/11/2008 12:16:56 PM

i tried for a while with it myself, but mostly got bogged down with the commands to do very simple things that I wanted done. I had similar feelings towards the equation stuff in it, but Maple is clearly not a substitution. Even Mathematica doesn't do real presentation level formatting of equations, but I'll still wind up using Word for that 90% of the time.

I need to switch to Linux for lent

2/11/2008 12:21:28 PM

sheepskin ftw

2/11/2008 7:14:04 PM