MathType 6, the latest version of the professional equation editor from Design Science (Long Beach, California), is now available from technical software specialist Adept Scientific. Offering compatibility with the latest versions of Windows, Word and PowerPoint, with Wikipedia and with TeX, LaTeX and MathML, this is a major upgrade to the powerful interactive tool that lets you create mathematical notation for word processor and desktop publishing documents, web pages and presentations.
Creating and editing equations is quick and easy with MathType 6, thanks
to its point-and-click interface, templates and palettes, customisable
keyboard shortcuts and the ability to save frequently used equations and
expressions to the MathType toolbar so they can be inserted later with
just a click or a keystroke.
New features in MathType 6 include support for the latest versions of
Microsoft Windows and Office, and takes full advantage of Office 2007's
new Ribbon interface by adding a new MathType tab in Word and PowerPoint
that makes it easier than ever to do equation operations in documents and
presentations.
Academics, authors and researchers familiar with TeX/LaTeX typesetting
languages will welcome MathType 6's TeX input mode, which makes it simple
to enter, define and edit equations in TeX, and copy equations from
existing TeX documents.
MathType also supports MathML, the worldwide standard markup language for
mathematics on the Web. New version 6 can copy equations from the new
MathML Clipboard Format that is supported by a growing number of
mathematical and scientific applications.
MathType 6 recognises the growing importance and popularity of the online
encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which now contains thousands of pages with
mathematical equations. MathType 6 equations can now be copied into
Wikipedia's page editor to create new pages or edit existing ones; and
equations can also be extracted from Wikipedia pages.
There's a new equation browsing feature that allows you to visit every
equation and/or equation number and reference in your Word document or
PowerPoint presentation, making it easy to review your work and locate
specific equations. There's also an expanded, comprehensive online help
system including tutorials that teach you how to use MathType most
efficiently.
MathType 5 users who upgrade to this new version will find that all
changes they've made to keyboard shortcuts, toolbars, preferences etc.
will be preserved; and MathType 6 equations are compatible with MathType
5.
MathType is the professional version of the Equation Editor included in
Microsoft Office and other products. Compared to Equation Editor, MathType
has a huge range of extra features, fonts and symbols, plus the ability to
use colour to highlight parts of an equation, to let you create a wider
range of better-looking equations for a greater range of documents.
MathType can be run as a stand-alone equation order, but it is most
commonly used as an add-in to Microsoft Office or Microsoft Word. MathType
6 adds a MathType ribbon to Word and PowerPoint 2007, and a MathType
toolbar and menu to Word 2003, 2002 (XP) and 2000. It is compatible with
Microsoft Windows Vista, XP and 2000. A Macintosh version of MathType 6
will be released shortly.
As well as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, MathType can be used to add
perfectly formatted equations to QuarkExpress, Adobe InDesign, Excel
spreadsheets and virtually all word processors, presentation programs,
page layout programs, HTML editors, graphing products and other
applications that support Insert Object, cut/copy/paste, drag-and-drop,
insertion of image files or translations to MathML, TeX or LaTeX.