Office Adopts New Windows Display Technology

re: Office Adopts New Windows Display Technology

MurrayS3 — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:35:38 GMT

I don't think anything is associated with CTRL+ALT+ENTER. You can use it for your own purposes. Here's a list of Word hotkeys: allhotkeys.com/microsoft_word_hotkeys.html

re: Office Adopts New Windows Display Technology

Nali — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:04:13 GMT

Please, can I have a question?

What is the purpose of CTRL+ALT+ENTER keyboard shortcut in MS-Word? What should it do?

Thank you.

re: Office Adopts New Windows Display Technology

Nali — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:50:14 GMT

Finally, it seems that the Word 2013 now supports the new better line-breaking algorithm (for the ordinary text) based on the penalty principles.

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Peter Hans-Lorenz — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:11:46 GMT

OK, I have no correct myself, no greyscale AA in OneNote, but now why in Word, hopefully just a bug?

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Peter Hans-Lorenz — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:55:20 GMT

Talking about Directwrite, which enables subpixel positioning and thus would make the "optimize character positioning for layout" setting much more bearable on high-DPI-but-not-yet-retina displays in Word, etc. if it weren't for it using greyscale anti-aliasing… why?! Please don't tell me it was just to make it the Office programs more Metro-I.

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MurrayS3 — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:45:43 GMT

PDF Reflow, the official name for the PDF to DOCX converter, currently leaves formulas as plain text or renders them as images. The PDF format usually does not contain information indicating when text is mathematical. All that is stored in PDF is absolutely positioned text, images, and graphics. Moreover sometimes PDF does not even contain the underlying Unicode values for mathematical text, so that when you copy text from the PDF, the result is messed up, although the original PDF looks correct.

PDF Reflow tries to detect mathematical text and to render it with the correct semantics; the formula structure is preserved, but the text cannot be edited. When mathematical text is not recognized as such, PDF Reflow imports the same text that you get otherwise by copying the content from the PDF. A blog post was written recently on the Word blog related to PDF Reflow: blogs.office.com/.../unlock-pdfs-with-the-new-word.aspx.

Ideally mathematical text in PDFs would be recognized and imported as OMML (Office MathML). Then you could edit it and use it in symbolic and numerical computations. Maybe that will happen some day. The team that made PDF Reflow belongs to the same organization that made the Windows Math Input Panel, which recognizes hand-written equations and converts them to MathML. Conceivably some of the Math Input Panel's logic could be applied to recognizing formulas in PDFs.

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txt — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:14:43 GMT

Microsoft announced this week that Office 2013 can open PDF files in Word and save them as Word documents (see [1]). Will math expressions in PDF docs be opened/saved as OMML expressions? Can you say more about it?

[1] blogs.office.com/.../the-new-office-expands-file-format-options.aspx

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Nali — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:18:10 GMT

I have known about the enhancements of Word 2013 desribed on the Word blog.

Primarily I though that the main improvements of MS-Word (as a text and word processing application) should be in the area of typography. After Word 2007 introduced the new and advanced math editing and displaying feature, I believed that after similar improvements of ordinary text displaying and editing the MS-Word would be better for scientific text preparation than LaTeX. But it seems that the priority has changed..., changed to the cloud and so on. I work with sensitive data so I will not used cloud for saving the MS-Office documents.

The math editing and displaying facility of Word shows the great potential of this application in the field of math typography and this advanced philosophy should not be limited only to math.

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MurrayS3 — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:10:55 GMT

A good summary of Word 2013 enhancements is given in the Word blog post blogs.office.com/.../introducing-word-2013.aspx. One very cool thing is the great integration with the cloud. With it, you can access your documents from anywhere and collaborate better than ever before. Also the touch and Windows 8 integration is excellent.

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Nali — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:55:10 GMT

If I understand it correctly, this version of Office 2013 is "only" the Consumer Preview (=Beta). Later, there should be the Release Preview (=Release Candidate) and then finaly the RTM version.

So it still time for progress and improvements (for adding features). But unfortunately, it seems that the Office Word team has no effort to add new features (which are connected to text/math typography...).

For comparison, the Internet Explorer team added many new features in each new Preview of Internet Explorer each 12 weeks!! The Internet Explorer team has shown the real progress of IE10 development and improvements. So, it is good reason to release the new version of Internet Explorer (IE10). And I will upgrade from IE9 to IE10.

But what is the reason to release the Word 2013? Without new (typographical) features (and equation numbering!!) I do not need to upragde from Office 2010 to Office 2013.

Sorry, but this is my opinion.