Re: Exporting mathematica equations into MathType
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- Subject: [mg57967] Re: Exporting mathematica equations into MathType
- From: Mike <m.HoneychurcNOSPAMh at uq.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 05:10:32 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Queensland
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On 13/6/05 7:57 PM, in article d8jl9e$srp$1 at smc.vnet.net, "Curt Fischer" <tentrillion at gmail.NOSPAM.com> wrote: > Paul Abbott wrote: >> In article <d8bcne$fgi$1 at smc.vnet.net>, >> "Mukhtar Bekkali" <mbekkali at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >>> I am writing my dissertation in Word with MathType 5.2 plugin. >> >> >> Don't do this! -- especially if your field is maths, physics, computer >> science or engineering (I wrote my dissertation in Word 1 back in 1986 >> using a precursor of MathType. Things have improved since then but Word >> is still a terrible typesetting program). Use TeX or Mathematica instead. >> >> >>> I would like to know if there is a way to export (or copy/paste) >>> Mathematica equations into MathType so that equations still look nice. >> >> >> There are -- but this is not a good way to proceed. > > I'm curious about this. Do you recommend doing the actually typing of > the main text in Mathematica? Or writing in Word and copying paragraphs > over to a Mathematica file as they are completed? > > I certainly been exasperated with Word a lot when trying to use MathType > or Equation Editor, and would love to use Mathematica, but Word as a lot > of features for text editing that I find very convenient for writing > actual text. How could one emulate field codes, very handy for managing > references, in Mathematica? Seemlessly incorporating references from eg. Endnote is probably the only advantage that Word has over Mathematica ...that I can think of. You can incorporate references into Mathematica documents using counters but it is not as smooth as using Endnote+Word. One way to do it would be to create a reference cell style. Place each reference in a reference cell with a cell tag and use counters to refer to the reference (cell tags) throughout the notebook. Cheers Mike