MathType Mathematical Equation Editor USER MANUAL Published By Design Science, Inc. 4028 Broadway Long Beach, CA 90803 U.S.A. Phone: (562) 433-0685 Fax: (562) 433-6969 E-mail: info@dessci.com Technical Support: support@dessci.com Web: www.dessci.com Copyright © 1987-2001 by Design Science, Inc. All rights reserved. MathType, MathPage, MathZoom, MathPlayer and "The best thing for writing equations since chalk!" are trademarks of Design Science, Inc. Macintosh and TrueType are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Times and Helvetica are registered trademarks of Allied Corporation. Adobe, Adobe Type Manager, FrameMaker, InDesign, PageMaker and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. TEX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. IBM and techexplorer are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. HP, LaserJet, DeskJet, and PCL are trademarks of Hewlett Packard Corporation. 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First Printing: August 2001 Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction ...............................................................................1 About MathType............................................................................................1 Using this Manual .........................................................................................3 Additional MathType Documentation ............................................................4 Getting Help..................................................................................................4 Registering Your Copy of MathType .............................................................5 Chapter 2 Getting Started ..........................................................................7 Overview.......................................................................................................7 System Requirements ..................................................................................7 Installing MathType.......................................................................................7 What To Do Next...........................................................................................8 Notes for Users of Earlier Versions of MathType..........................................8 Notes for Microsoft Equation Editor Users....................................................9 Equation Conversion Manager .....................................................................9 Chapter 3 Basic Concepts .......................................................................11 Introduction .................................................................................................11 The MathType Window ...............................................................................12 Keyboard Notation in this Manual...............................................................14 Entering Text from the Keyboard ................................................................14 Inserting Symbols .......................................................................................15 Inserting Templates.....................................................................................16 Placing the Insertion Point ..........................................................................16 Moving the Insertion Point ..........................................................................17 Selecting Items in an Equation ...................................................................18 The ENTER Key ..........................................................................................18 Keyboard Shortcuts ....................................................................................19 Chapter 4 Tutorials ...................................................................................21 Before You Start..........................................................................................21 Tutorial 1: Fractions and Square Roots ......................................................22 Tutorial 2: Sums, Subscripts & Superscripts...............................................26 Tutorial 3: Editing Old Equations ................................................................29 Tutorial 4: Including Text in an Equation .....................................................31 Tutorial 5: Using MathType's Toolbar..........................................................32 Tutorial 6: Spacing and Alignment ..............................................................36 i MathType User Manual Tutorial 7: A Simple Matrix ..........................................................................38 Tutorial 8: Fonts and Styles ........................................................................41 Tutorial 9: Equation Numbering in Microsoft Word .....................................45 Tutorial 10: Advanced Equation Numbering in Microsoft Word ..................49 Tutorial 11: Setting Up a Microsoft Word Document...................................51 Tutorial 12: Formatting with Tabs................................................................53 Tutorial 13: Inserting Unusual Symbols ......................................................55 Tutorial 14: Creating Web Pages with Microsoft Word ...............................58 Tutorial 15: Creating Web Pages with GIF Files.........................................60 Tutorial 16: Customizing the Keyboard.......................................................62 A Tutorial 17: Working with TEX, L TEX & MathML......................................63 Tutorial 18: Exporting Equations in Microsoft Word....................................66 What To Do Next.........................................................................................68 Chapter 5 Working with Other Applications ..........................................69 Introduction .................................................................................................69 MathType and the MathType Server...........................................................69 Inserting Equations into a Document..........................................................70 Moving and Resizing Equations in Documents ..........................................72 Inline Equations ..........................................................................................72 Equation Numbering ...................................................................................73 Working with Equation Files .......................................................................73 Working with Microsoft Word ......................................................................75 Working with Adobe Acrobat.......................................................................80 Using TEX, MathML and other Translators ................................................81 Working with Paint and Draw Applications..................................................82 Working with Presentation Applications......................................................83 Working with Desktop Publishing Applications ...........................................84 Working with non-Windows Computers......................................................84 Chapter 6 Creating Web Pages Containing Equations .........................87 Introduction .................................................................................................87 MathPage ...................................................................................................87 The Export To MathPage Dialog.................................................................88 Tips for Better Web Pages..........................................................................90 Master Documents......................................................................................91 Copying Web Pages to a Web Server ........................................................92 Editing a MathPage-Generated Web Page ................................................92 Creating Web Pages with Other Authoring Programs ................................93 Creating Web Pages Using Adobe Acrobat ................................................93 ii Table of Contents Chapter 7 Fonts, Styles, Sizes and Spacing ..........................................95 Introduction .................................................................................................95 Styles ..........................................................................................................95 Automatic Style Assignment .......................................................................97 Explicit Style Assignments ..........................................................................98 Typesizes....................................................................................................99 Automatic Size Assignments ....................................................................100 Explicit Size Assignments .........................................................................100 Spacing.....................................................................................................100 Equation Preferences ...............................................................................101 Using Preference Files .............................................................................101 Chapter 8 Advanced Formatting ...........................................................103 Introduction ...............................................................................................103 Overriding Automatic Spacing ..................................................................103 Nudging ....................................................................................................104 Fence Alignment .......................................................................................105 Changing the Font of Individual Characters .............................................106 Changing the Size of Individual Characters..............................................107 Choosing Fonts for Math Documents .......................................................107 Fonts as Sources of Additional Symbols ..................................................108 MathType's Font and Character Knowledge.............................................109 Tabs .......................................................................................................... 111 Appendix A Font Charts.........................................................................113 MathType's Fonts .....................................................................................113 Symbol, plain ............................................................................................114 MT Extra, plain..........................................................................................115 Euclid Symbol, plain .................................................................................116 Euclid Symbol, italic..................................................................................117 Euclid Symbol, bold ..................................................................................118 Euclid Symbol, bold-italic..........................................................................119 Euclid, plain ..............................................................................................120 Euclid, italic...............................................................................................121 Euclid, bold ...............................................................................................122 Euclid, bold-italic.......................................................................................123 Euclid Extra, plain .....................................................................................124 Euclid Extra, bold......................................................................................125 Euclid Fraktur, plain ..................................................................................126 Euclid Fraktur, bold ...................................................................................127 iii MathType User Manual Euclid Math One, plain..............................................................................128 Euclid Math One, bold ..............................................................................129 Euclid Math Two, plain..............................................................................130 Euclid Math Two, bold...............................................................................131 Index ................ 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