None of this is what we Mellel users would like, but it's all good news. It invovles using Convert Equation and working through MathML as an intermediate state. I feel that I should not quote from their email to me, but I assume that Wiris will send the recipe to anyone requesting it. This is a temporary measure as they work on a more permanent solution. Finally, and this is important, upon request, Wiris provided me with a work-around for converting pre-existing MathType equations to MathType equations editable in the Word 365 add-in. If you've upgraded to Catalina or Mojave, this will not work and everything will seem broken.ĮDITING OLD EQUATIONS. If instead you click on the text label "MathType" on Word's same top menu (the one with Home, Insert, Draw, etc.), you will be firing up the old MathType 7. To use the MathType add-in, one must click on the red Mathtype Icon (a square root), which opens a window that has a button "Open MathType". In the meantime, it's free.ĬAUTION: during this interim period, I find that it is also easy to run into trouble. When it is (a few months?), those with MathType 7 licenses will be able to use their old license number. Also, the licensing mechanism is not yet included. The Wiris people tell me that my installation is ok, that the feature is indeed still a beta with some clunkiness and a number of known limitations that will be fixed soon. There are still blurbs referring to Beta status. The offset needed may be different for different computers/operating systems/styles.ĬAUTION: As of today, the Word 365 MathType add-in for Catalina and Mojave is still not finished. I had to adjust vertical position by 1 point to make things look right. I updated my iMac to Big Sur, opened Word, added the new MathType add-in, wrote some equations, and copied/pasted to Mellel. This is an update as of Jon using MathType via Office 365 and Big Sur. When it comes to re-editing MathType equations in existing documents, I don’t see any way to get that done under Catalina or Big Sur. ![]() Mellel lets you place such an equation as an inline graphic and then adjust its placement downward relative to the surrounding text, but I haven’t found a good way to automate the process. The problem is that when I place a formula as an inline graphic in Mellel, the bottom edge of the formula coincides with the baseline of the surrounding text, so the formula looks too high up. But I’ve not yet devised a satisfying work flow. And it’s easy to get placed formulas back into LaTeXiT for reediting. You can save frequently used formulas in the app for easy reuse. You can get beautiful equations this way with considerable control over fonts and such. You need to learn how to “write” equations in LaTeX, not that hard, and you need to install and maintain MacTex or some simpler LaTeX system to actually use it (not that hard once you take the plunge). ![]() It’s not a palette equation editor in quite the same sense. And in any case the formatting of Math formulas looks pretty primitive compared to what could be done in the old MathType. Documentation makes it look as if you can export formulas made in Math to other formats if you use Libre Office Draw as an intermediary, but that’s another step. I haven’t used LibreOffice, but LibreOffice Math produces formulas in ODF format, and I don’t see any way to import such files into Mellel. It looks like Wiris is giving up as well. Until recently Wiris said it was working on a version of MathType that would work across applications in newer versions of the Mac OS, but changes in how the OS operates had already led its old competitor, MathMagic, to give up.
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