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Is there a math/equation GUI program like this ?
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berke:

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--- Quote from: alm on January 16, 2023, 10:05:58 pm ---Is Word usable for complex technical documents these days? Let's say a hundred pages, dozens of large figures, tables across multiple pages, equations, cross references everywhere and all that jazz?

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Probably, but I personally use LaTeX for that kind of documents. This invariably leads to less frustration and much better looking documents.

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For writing equations in Word you need to run Windows though.  The on-line version does not support equations.  The few times where a client insisted on a document being written in Word I usually Pandoc'd it from a sane format to Word then told them to figure out the formatting.

You can always tell when a technical document has been written using Word by the awkward look of the math.
tooki:

--- Quote from: alm on January 16, 2023, 12:13:59 pm ---I prefer LaTeX and frontends like LyX, because I feel they integrate much better in a larger document than Word where you have to keep opening the equation editor modal for every small inline equation that you want to change and last time I looked had more advanced features like equation numbering or units, but if you want a more advanced version of the Word Equation Editor, then MathType might be worth a look. It wouldn't surprise me if earlier versions of the Word Equation Editor were licensed versions of MathType.

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https://www.adeptscience.co.uk/products/mathsim/mathtype/mathtype-windows-vs-equation-editor.html says:

--- Quote ---There have been no significant changes to Equation Editor since we licensed it to Microsoft in 1991. MathType, on the other hand, has been continually upgraded and improved.
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tooki:

--- Quote from: berke on January 17, 2023, 11:33:09 am ---For writing equations in Word you need to run Windows though.  The on-line version does not support equations.  The few times where a client insisted on a document being written in Word I usually Pandoc'd it from a sane format to Word then told them to figure out the formatting.

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Or Mac (or, with some entry limitations, iOS).
tooki:

--- Quote from: alm on January 16, 2023, 10:05:58 pm ---Is Word usable for complex technical documents these days? Let's say a hundred pages, dozens of large figures, tables across multiple pages, equations, cross references everywhere and all that jazz? My experiences in the 2003 days were that Word would completely choke, references would break at random, scrolling would be at glacial speed, and the only way around it would be to give up on automated cross references and split the document in pieces.

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IMHO it’s gotten a lot better.

FYI, it’s actually possible to break up a document into smaller pieces and have references work: use subdocuments (an obscure Word feature).
IanB:

--- Quote from: tooki on January 18, 2023, 06:42:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: alm on January 16, 2023, 12:13:59 pm ---It wouldn't surprise me if earlier versions of the Word Equation Editor were licensed versions of MathType.

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Earlier versions, yes, evidently.


--- Quote ---https://www.adeptscience.co.uk/products/mathsim/mathtype/mathtype-windows-vs-equation-editor.html says:

--- Quote ---There have been no significant changes to Equation Editor since we licensed it to Microsoft in 1991. MathType, on the other hand, has been continually upgraded and improved.
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This is a bit misleading, since Word does not use Equation Editor anymore, and has not done so for over a decade. The current equation feature in Word is a replacement that uses inline equation markup using Unicode characters, somewhat similar to LaTex.

The current equation markup feature in Word is described here:

https://unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.pdf
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