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Is there a math/equation GUI program like this ?

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IanB:

--- Quote from: tooki on January 18, 2023, 06:54:25 pm ---Or Mac (or, with some entry limitations, iOS).

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Or possibly with fewer limitations, with the latest version of iPadOS. I have been trying to find out how full featured is Microsoft 365 for iPad. It does rather seem like the full program.

tooki:
I only looked at it quickly, but I couldn’t find any of the gallery menus of equation elements like on the desktop version. Maybe it’s there and I didn’t see it?

tooki:

--- Quote from: IanB on January 18, 2023, 08:39:05 pm ---
--- 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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Is the old one still there for compatibility with old documents?

pardo-bsso:
I also suggest trying Mathics ( https://mathics.org/ ) and GeoGebra ( https://www.geogebra.org/ )

IanB:

--- Quote from: tooki on January 19, 2023, 09:40:49 am ---Is the old one still there for compatibility with old documents?

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Apparently not for creating new equations. It seems Microsoft removed the old equation editor from Office 2007 onwards. See here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/editing-equations-created-using-microsoft-equation-editor-08a44b8c-ae15-41a7-bc15-7239890c0cec

What happens instead is that if you try to edit old equations they will be automatically converted to the new format.

If you simply open the document without trying to edit the equations then the equations retain their original display formatting so you can continue to read the document as it was.

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