New MathType 6.6 brings math support to over 350 applications and websites

30/12/2009

MathType 6.6

New version also adds handwritten math support to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.

Design Science announced the release of MathType™ 6.6 for Windows, featuring support for Windows 7's handwriting recognition feature as well as extending its support to over 350 applications and websites in areas such as education, elearning, calculation, word processing, presentation, email, blogs and wikis. Among the newly supported applications and websites are Google Docs, Gmail, Blackboard and many others.

For the last year, the company has been implementing its Equations Everywhere and Anywhere!initiative, enhancing MathType to eventually work with virtually all the applications and websites used by students, teachers, professors, elearning authors, scientists and engineers. With this new release, MathType now works with over 350 applications and websites. It also features an accompanying "Works With ..." web application that shows detailed instructions on how best to use MathType with each product. "Scientists, engineers and educators are now able to work with math notation in a much wider variety of applications and websites than ever before," said Paul R. Topping, Design Science's President & CEO. "Our goal is to make MathType the tool of choice for all mathematical communication."

MathType has long been known as the professional version of the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office, used by millions of educators, scientists and engineers to create papers and presentations with textbook-quality equations. According to scientific and technical publishers, over 85% of submitted manuscripts containing mathematical notation are Microsoft Word documents with MathType or Equation Editor equations.

MathType as Equation Editor for iWork '09 Suite

14/01/2009

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Apple has chosen MathType as the equation editor for its new iWork '09 suite of applications. MathType works with all three iWork applications: Pages (word processor), Keynote (presentation), and Numbers (spreadsheet).

Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, announced in the keynote address at last week's Macworld Expo conference in San Francisco that Apple has chosen MathType as the equation editor for its new iWork '09 suite of applications. MathType works with all three iWork applications: Pages (word processor), Keynote (presentation), and Numbers (spreadsheet).

MathType has long been known as the professional version of the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office, used by millions of educators, scientists and engineers to create papers and presentations with textbook-quality equations. According to scientific and technical publishers, over 85% of submitted manuscripts containing mathematical notation are Microsoft Word documents with MathType or Equation Editor equations. Now that MathType works with Apple's iWork, coverage of the most popular word processing and presentation applications on Mac and Windows is virtually complete.

It is expected that many Mac users in these markets will make the move to iWork. If they have existing Microsoft Office documents containing MathType or Equation Editor equations, these can be imported into the new iWork applications and the equations will remain editable.

New MathType version 6.0

20/07/2007

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You need to upgrade if you have Vista or Word/PowerPoint 2007. Also runs on Windows XP, 2000 and works with Word/PowerPoint 2003 (XP).

MathType 6.0 for Windows is a powerful interactive tool that enables you to create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations, and for TeX, LaTeX, and MathML documents.

MathType 6.0 for Windows New Features

  • Microsoft Office 2007 Support: MathType takes full advantage of Office 2007's new Ribbon User Interface by adding a new MathType Tab in Word and PowerPoint. This makes it easier than ever to do equation operations in documents and presentations. New equation numbering and browse features work with all Word 2007 equation types. MathType 6 also supports Office 2003, XP (2002), and 2000.

  • Define Equations using TeX/LaTeX: If you already know the TeX typesetting language, you can enter equations quickly using MathType's TeX input mode. TeX editing can be mixed with point-and-click editing so you get the best of both worlds. You can also copy equations from existing TeX documents.

  • Copy and Author Equations from Wikipedia: Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia, contains 1000's of pages with mathematical equations. Once you do your research on Wikipedia, you can copy relevant equations for use in your own work. You can also copy MathType equations into Wikipedia's page editor in order to create new pages or edit existing ones.

  • Windows Vista Support: MathType 6 now works on Windows Vista, XP, and 2000 operating systems.

  • Equation Browsing: The new equation browsing feature allows you to visit every equation and/or equation number and reference in your Word document or PowerPoint presentation.

  • MathML Clipboard Support: MathType can now copy equations to the Windows clipboard using the new MathML Clipboard Format that is supported by a growing number of mathematical and scientific applications.

  • New, Improved Online Help: We have combined MathType's user manual and help into a single comprehensive help system featuring full text search and an extensive index. It contains tutorials that teach you how to use MathType most efficiently as well as contextual help for its commands and dialogs.

Shipping Date: This new version is currently only available for delivery by ESD (download) only. The CD-ROM version is being manufactured and the expected ship date is August 20, 2007. We will accept all orders (download and CD-ROM) for version 6.0 and ship as soon as we receive the product.

Upgrade Policy: Customers who purchased MathType 5.2 for Windows from May 19, 2007 on are eligible for free upgrades to MathType 6.0 for Windows. We require the MathType 5.2 registration number to verify eligibility, and to process the free upgrade. 

MathType 5.1 for Macintosh is Now Shipping

27/07/2004

Design Science announced today the release of MathType 5.1 for Macintosh that works with Microsoft Office 2004.

Design Science announced today the release of MathType 5.1 for Macintosh that works with Microsoft Office 2004. MathType is the full-featured, professional version of the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office, AppleWorks and many other products, and is used by math and science educators, research scientists and publishing professionals to include mathematical notation in printed documents and web pages.

In addition to providing support for Office 2004, MathType 5.1 is built for Mac OS X, runs on OS 9, and is a major upgrade for MathType 3.x users. The new version has all the features of MathType for Windows: hundreds of new mathematical and technical symbols and templates, a toolbar and menu commands that turn Microsoft Word into a powerful math word processor and web page editor, batch EPS export and color support for professional publishing, translators to TeX, LaTeX and MathML, and the company's new MathPage technology for converting Word documents to web pages that display and print high-quality mathematical notation. Equation Editor users can now work with Word documents created by MathType users via the freely downloadable MathType Lite.

About Design Science

Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Long Beach, California, Design Science develops software used by educators, scientists and publishing professionals, including MathType, Equation Editor in Microsoft Office, WebEQ, MathFlow, MathPlayer and TeXaide, to communicate on the web and in print. For more information please visit www.dessci.com.

Trial MathType

To trial MathType, a demo is availabe on the Hearne website. This demo is a 30 day evaluation software.

Upgrade to MathType 5.0 for Mac OS 9 and OS X

31/03/2004

MathType 5.0 for Macintosh is here. Major upgrade for OS 9 & OS X

Design Science MathType™ 5.0 for Mac is the most important release since MathType 1.0. It has many new features and enhancements, and makes available an enormous amount of functionality that effectively transforms Microsoft Word into a state-of-the-art math word processor and web page editor.

One remarkable new feature is our new MathPage™ technology, that will transform your Microsoft Word documents into web pages with great-looking math.

We're excited to introduce a MathType built for Mac OS X, which also runs on OS 9. This new version is also compatible with MathType for Windows, and works with all popular major word processors, presentation, page layout programs and HTML-authoring tools.

Hundreds of new symbol and templates

MathType now comes with over 500 mathematical symbols and templates. Fractions, radicals, sums, integrals, products, matrices, various types of brackets and braces – you name it! You can also use any character from any font installed on your system. MathType also includes our exclusive Euclid Math Font Set, to give a document's text and mathematical notation a consistent, industry-standard TeX/LaTeX Computer Modern look.

MathPage: From Word to the Web

MathType includes the new MathPage™ technology that easily converts Microsoft Word documents to web pages, properly handling mathematical symbols as well as MathType and Equation Editor equations, viewable in any modern browser. If you've ever tried to save a web page using Microsoft Word's Save As Web Page feature, you know that the results are often less than desirable. With MathType, your entire Word document is transformed into a web page, with equations as GIF images or MathML, automatically appearing in your browser, with stunningly beautiful results.

Customisable equation toolbar

  • Holds hundreds of your most frequently used symbols, expressions, and equations

  • Drag from your equation and drop onto the toolbar

  • Associate a keyboard shortcut with any symbol, template, or expression

  • Organise your expressions and symbols using named tabs (e.g. "Geometry", "Science", etc.)

  • Three viewing sizes to adjust for monitor size, resolution and user’s preference

Colour

Colour all or parts of equations –- great for working with presentation software (such as Microsoft PowerPoint), and web pages. MathType also handles CMYK, RGB and spot colour for page layout software, such as QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, PageMaker, etc.

Customisable keyboard shortcuts

Assign your own keyboard shortcuts to all MathType symbols, templates and commands. Keyboard shortcuts consist of one or two keystrokes, each with possible Command, Shift, Option and Control modifiers.

Built-in translators for TeX, LaTeX and MathML

MathType comes with translators that convert equations to several versions of TeX and MathML:

  • Plain TeX (as described in Donald Knuth's The TeX Book)

  • AMS-TeX (Plain TeX with extensions from the American Mathematical Society)

  • LaTeX (version 2.09 and later)

  • AMS-LaTeX (LaTeX with AMS extensions)

  • MathML 1.0

  • MathML 2.0

Save equations as GIF images, EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) and PICT

GIF images

MathType creates smooth-looking GIF equations on either colour or transparent backgrounds. Mathematical notation created with MathType is much higher-quality than the jagged-edged equations created by converting Microsoft Word documents to HTML due to the application of anti-aliasing algorithms. Also, the GIF files created by MathType result in much faster download times because of smaller file sizes obtained by optimisation of the GIF colour palette.

EPS and PICT

EPS is often the format of choice for professional publishing with QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, PageMaker and other page layout programs. PICT is the standard file format for line art for the Mac OS. MathType lets you save equations in both these file formats.

Anyone using Microsoft Word can automatically export all equations into a folder as GIF, EPS or PICT, using the Export Equations command we install into Word.

Runs on Mac OS 9 and OS X

MathType 5.0 is built for Mac OS X and also runs on OS 9.

Compatible with MathType for Windows

MathType 5.0 for Mac is fully compatible with MathType for Windows and you can read and edit equations created with the Equation Editor in Microsoft Word.

MathType Lite and Equation Editor compatibility

Start telling all of your colleagues who are still using Equation Editor that when they download the free MathType evaluation from our web site they will get full MathType functionality for the 30-days, after which MathType becomes MathType Lite. From then on, your colleagues will get all the functionality of Equation Editor but, in addition, they will be able to open and work with any of your MathType equations.

Compatible with Microsoft Office and many other products

MathType 5.0 for Mac has been thoroughly tested with Microsoft Office v. X, Office 2001, and Office 98. It also works with other popular word processors such as AppleWorks and NisusWriter, page layout programs such as QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign, graphing products such as DeltaGraph, and many other products.

System requirements

  • Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1 or newer

  • 20 MB free hard disk space

  • 4 MB of RAM (12 MB if used with Microsoft Word)

  • CD-ROM for installation 

MathType 4.0 for Windows

30/03/2002

MathType 4.0 for Windows Released

MathType 4.0 for Windows is MathType's biggest release since 1.0, with many new and improved features.

New Euclid Math Font Set
The Euclid font set gives a document's text and mathematical notation a consistent, industry-standard look.

Color
Color all or parts of equations – great for working with presentation software, such as Microsoft PowerPoint. MathType also handles CMYK, RGB and spot color for page layout software, such as QuarkXPress, PageMaker, etc.

Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
Assign your own keyboard shortcuts to all MathType symbols, templates and commands. Keyboard shortcuts consist of one or two keystrokes, each with possible Ctrl, Alt, or Shift modifiers.

MathML for Math and Science Communication
MathML, an XML-based language for representing mathematical notation in Web-based technical documents, is a Recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium. MathML is playing an increasingly important role in education, publishing and information exchange on the Internet. Design Science personnel are actively involved in the W3C Math Working Group that created MathML and continue to develop and support it. MathType’s MathML translator will give you a headstart in this emerging technology.

Drag & drop Equation Editing
Use drag & drop to quickly move or copy whole equations or parts of equations from MathType into your documents or into the MathType toolbar.

Insert Symbol Dialog

  • Displays your fonts in a character grid (similar to MS Word’s but better)

  • Find the character you are looking for by searching for words in its description (e.g. find all the characters whose description contains“angle”)

  • See characters sorted by their Unicode value

Customizable Function Recognition
When you type "sin", "cos", "lim", etc., MathType understands you are typing a function and will automatically change its font to "function style". You can also add your own functions to those that MathType recognizes.

Extensive Unicode-based Character Database
Unicode is a character encoding standard that attempts to include all characters in use in the world’s languages and in mathematics.

Internet and World Wide Web-savvy

  • Online version-checking uses the Internet to check for MathType upgrades Online product registration via your web browser, email, or print for fax or surface mail

  • Direct access to MathType’s Technical Support area using commands on the Help menu

New Spacing Dimensions

  • Operator spacing (% of normal)

  • Non-operator spacing (% of normal)

  • Character width adjustment

  • Radical “check-mark” width adjustment

  • Subscript and superscript horizontal gap

  • Slash and diagonal fraction gap

  • Horizontal gap between fence templates (parentheses, brackets, braces, etc.) and their contents

  • Stroke thickness for box lines, strike-throughs, radical signs, etc

Full 32-bit Application

  • State-of-the-art 3-D dialogs

  • Standard Open, Save As, and Print dialogs

  • Long filename support

OLE 2.0 Support

  • Editing either inline in the document or in a separate MathType window according to your preference

  • Optional suppression of the "Save Changes?" dialog

  • Optionally have MathType start in "server" mode for faster, on-demand equation editing

Order MathType 4.0 from Hearne online.

Media Release - MathType 5 New Release: Math Equations Over The Internet

30/03/2002

Media Release - MathType 5 New Release: Math Equations Over The Internet

Includes MathPage technology for publishing math Web pages from Word documents

Design Science, Inc. announced the release of MathType 5 for Windows, the professional version of the Equation Editor included in Microsoft Office. This release includes the company's new MathPage(tm) technology for converting Microsoft Word documents to Web pages that display and print high-quality mathematical notation. A fully functional, 30-day evaluation is available on the company's Web site.

From Microsoft Word to the Web
The company estimates that 75% of the world's documents containing math are authored using Microsoft Word (TeX/LaTeX account for the balance). Using MathPage technology included in MathType 5 for Windows, authors and publishers can now easily convert those Word documents to HTML, transforming the equations to either GIF images or MathML.

"Anyone who's ever tried using Word's Save as Web Page feature for documents containing math, knows that the results are less than desirable", said Paul R. Topping, the company's president. "We wanted to give anyone authoring with Word an easy way to create Web documents with great-looking math. The result, our MathPage technology, not only makes the process of putting technical documents on the Web easy, the pages print beautifully.", said Topping.

Other New Features
MathType is now able to export all equations from a Word document as individual EPS, GIF, or WMF files, simplifying the workflow with page layout programs, such as QuarkXPress, InDesign, and HTML-authoring tools. Other new features include MathML 2.0 translators, Microsoft Office XP (Word 2002) and Windows XP support, unlimited undo, add/delete matrix rows and columns, mouse-wheel support and many other features requested by users.

MathType Lite
Design Science strongly encourages Equation Editor users to download a free MathType 5 evaluation. They'll get full MathType functionality for the 30-day evaluation period, after which MathType becomes MathType Lite. From then on, users have all the functionality of Equation Editor but, in addition, have access to the full set of MathType fonts and symbols and the ability to work with other MathType users. MathType Lite never expires.

Reviewer notes are available online from Design Science.

Order MathType 5 from Hearne's website, or contact us for more information.