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MathType is a software application created by Design Science that allows the creation of mathematical notation for inclusion in desktop and web applications. After Design Science was acquired by Maths for More in 2017, their WIRIS web equation editor software been rebranded as ''MathType''.


Features

MathType is a graphical editor for mathematical equations, allowing entry with the mouse or keyboard in a full graphical
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environment. This contrasts to document
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such as
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where equations are entered as markup in a text editor and then processed into a typeset document as a separate step. MathType also supports the math markup languages
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, and
MathML Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is a mathematical markup language, an application of XML for describing mathematical notations and capturing both its structure and content. It aims at integrating mathematical formulae into World Wide W ...
. LaTeX can be entered directly into MathType,This feature is disabled by default, but can be enabled in Workspace Preferences. and MathType equations in Microsoft Word can be converted to and from LaTeX. MathType supports copying to and pasting from any of these markup languages. Additionally, on Windows 7 and later, equations may be drawn using a touch screen or pen (or mouse) via the
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. By default, MathType equations are typeset in
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, with Symbol used for symbols and Greek. Equations may also be typeset in Euclid, a modern font like
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used in TeX, and this is included with the software. Roman characters (i.e. variable names and functions) may be typeset in any font that contains those characters, but Greek and symbols will still use Times or Euclid.


Support for other applications

On Windows, MathType supports
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(OLE), which is the standard Windows mechanism for including information from one application in another. In particular office suites such as
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for Windows allow MathType equations to be embedded in this way. Equations embedded using OLE are displayed and printed as graphics in the host application and can be edited later, in which case the host document is updated automatically. In addition, a
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add-in is included, which adds features including equation numbering and formatting displayed equations (as opposed to inline equations), which are features that MathType does not add to other applications. On Macs, there is no analogous standard to OLE so support is not universal. Microsoft Office for Mac supports OLE, so MathType equations may be used there as usual. MathType has support for Apple
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'09, so equations may be embedded and updated seamlessly in that product too. In applications where no other possibility is available, such as OpenOffice.org for Mac, Design Science recommends exporting equations as images and embedding those images into documents. As on Windows, there is a plugin for Microsoft Word for Mac (except for Word 2008Design Science: What's the story with MathType and Microsoft Office 2008?
/ref>), which adds equation formatting features such as equation numbering, which are features that MathType does not add to other applications.
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included a special version of MathType for built-in equation editing. For Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs, MathType supports copying to (and pasting from) HTML tags (created by translating the equation's LaTeX into Google Chart API). There is a list of web application presets in the Copy Preferences dialog, so for example choosing "Google Docs" would copy as an HTML tag, whereas choosing "Wikipedia" would copy as LaTeX wrapped in a wiki tag.


Version history

Since the initial introduction in 1987, Design Science has released new versions of MathType, the latest in 2019.


See also

*
MathJax MathJax is a cross-browser JavaScript library that displays mathematical notation in web browsers, using MathML, LaTeX and ASCIIMathML markup. MathJax is released as open-source software under the Apache License. The MathJax project started i ...


References


Notes


Further reading

* {{cite journal , title = Mathtype 5 with mathML for the WWW , author = Foster, K.R. , doi = 10.1109/MSPEC.2001.969610 , date = December 2001 , issue = 12 , volume = 38 , pages = 64 , journal =
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External links


Official website
Formula editors