Equation Editor For Mac Pages

Hi,

I have received an old 'doc' (word 97-2004) from a colleague. This document contains a lot of mathematical formulas, which are rendered as images when I open the document in word 2016.

  • MathType - 6 7: MathType is a powerful interactive equation editor for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, elearning, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents.
  • MathType is a powerful interactive equation editor for Windows and Macintosh that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, elearning, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents.
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Equation Editor Pages Mac Os X. By admin| November 2, 2017. Opening docx files on a mac without microsoft office adobe indesign never could do half decent math equations or symbols greek letter shortcuts mac os x 10 8 you practically efficient. The editor built into the program is basically an all-purpose equation editor! Some alternatives to Pages There are other programs that do a good job of replacing Word (at least as converters for.doc files).

I guess the equations used to be editable in the original editor (some old version of word). Therefore somewhere in the document there should be some kind of 'raw' representation of the equations (latex-like, e.g.) that can be converted in the new format without resorting to third party software (someone suggested MathType).

If this is not the case, word is not compatible with its older versions, which is frankly unacceptable. There should be some way of recovering all the information in an old doc file. I can accept slight formatting issues, but turning entire editable equations in (very, very ugly) images is really bad.

It means that microsoft word is unreliable, because when a new version is released one risks loosing a lot of work.

Does anybody know an efficient way of making the equations editable?

Thanks a lot

Francesco

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I have more and more thoughts about taking my class notes on my computer, and Pages '09 would seem like a good candidate for that task. However, being that I have a lot of technical classes, I find myself needing to insert MathType equations very often.

Is there a keyboard shortcut to insert such an equation? If not, can I somehow make one?

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FastScripts is my choice to easily make key shortcuts for accessing menu items - much nicer, more flexible and far more powerful than the keyboard preference pane. Also, LaunchBar works wonders for fast switching apps / activating services and learns your preferred key shortcuts on the go rather than having to program them in beforehand (but you can do that too if you like).

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Equation Editor For Mac Pages

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Update for 2019: The newer versions of Pages actually recently added equation support! Just go to Insert > Equation... or hit ⌥⌘E.

It uses LaTeX or MathML, but if you want to use MathType there's apparently a button for that in the resulting dialog, or you can set it to be your default. (I don't have MathType, so I can't test this.)

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