what's the best way to write equations?

rudeboymcc · 30 Oct 2007 at 20:46

Hi there. I'm trying to find a faster way of writing equations in word (equation editor takes ages!). are there any other applications that you can recommend for it?

also i was thinking fo buying a tablet so i can just write it with a pen and it automatically recognises it (this would be amazing if it works!).

swinnie · 30 Oct 2007 at 21:13

For my coursework i use paint and then copy that into my coursework.

tolien · 30 Oct 2007 at 21:19

LaTeX - Texmaker, and some other bits (came as a package, can't remember exactly what there was).

rudeboymcc · 30 Oct 2007 at 22:05

LOL at using paint

latex seems really good but i think it has a too high learning curve. is there nothing that can read it from tablets?

swinnie · 30 Oct 2007 at 22:18

rudeboymcc said:
LOL at using paint

latex seems really good but i think it has a too high learning curve. is there nothing that can read it from tablets?

Any graphics app can read from paint, mind you, you can use the graphics tablet as a mouse so you could do it in word processor.

I stuck to paint so i could edit at school easily!

rudeboymcc · 30 Oct 2007 at 22:36

soryr, i'm not talking about just drawing the equations out by hand and then leaving them like that, i want to draw them , then the computer recognises it and puts it in digital equation form (so it looks just like i used equation editor).

i'm talking about equations which will be in a report, it just takes so long to write them with equation editor. hand writing recognisiton works relaly well, but i haven't tried it with equations, that's why i want to know if it works (or if there's some softwrae that will make it happen).

MarcLister · 30 Oct 2007 at 22:51

Try OpenOffice Math? Write the equation in that and then copy and paste it into Word?

http://www.openoffice.org/product/math.html

sidethink · 31 Oct 2007 at 08:33

MarcLister said:
Try OpenOffice Math? Write the equation in that and then copy and paste it into Word?

http://www.openoffice.org/product/math.html

Or just dispense with Word and keep it in OO Writer.