Equation Numbering

re: Equation Numbering

XaMaLa — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:36:34 GMT

Very good!

We share the same point of view on the Equation Editor in Office Word 2007.

If you want to have examples in French, please visit : http://blogs.microsoft.fr/franckha/archive/2006/10/21/50908.aspx

re: Equation Numbering

Rodolfo Oviedo — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:23:28 GMT

I think this is not good enough. I think that Mathtype works better for equation numbering. In Word 2007, if you insert an equation before the first equation of a second chapter, you have to re-set the number of equation to 1.

Will I be able to cross reference to equation numbers? The demo does not say anything about this.

Will I be able to open a documents where equation where typed with the equation editor and/or Mathtype's profesional editor. Will the equations be translated to the new format? Will the numbering and cross references be kept?

It should be easy to number or unnumber an equation. Is it?

re: Equation Numbering

Rodolfo Oviedo — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:53:11 GMT

It should be easy to change the numbers format (e.g. (3) to (2.3) where 2 is the chapter for a whole document. Is it? In Mathtype you can do this.

If you change the font type (e.g. from Times New Roman to Arial) and size in the whole document or the normal style, does this change alter the type and size of the fonts of equations. If not, can you change the font type and size for all equations in a single step as you can do in Mathtype?

Instead of giving a percent to each column wouldn't if be better to give a fixed with to the first and last columns so as to use me minimum space and leave the maximum space to the second column, where a big equation may lie?

re: Equation Numbering

Rodolfo Oviedo — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:20:37 GMT

Is a dispayed equation a paragraph on it own? Would it help to have a style for equations?

Thinking about the spaces before and after a displayed equation, if I have a style for displayed equations, I can change them all at once. I usually have to do so when I swich from a book-like paragraph format (where a new paragraph is noticed by the firt-line indent) to a the format I use for presentations where paragraphs are separated by a space between paragraphs. (I do not use powerpoint for presentations. I just set up custom-sized pages of small dimensions and, when I have to print to Adobe, I scale to the paper size of my choice from the Print window of Word. This way everything gets bigger.)

re: Equation Numbering

wrdblog — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:15:50 GMT

Hi Rodolfo,

You can in fact cross-reference equation numbers. You will also be able to open documents whose equations were written with Equation Editor and/or MathType. However, there are currently no tools to convert from one format to the other.

You can set the default math font to be used for an entire document, but once you have inserted equations throughout the document, we don't have a UI to change the font for equations only. It can be done through Word's object model.

Settings for spacing before, after, and between equations is something we've spent a lot of time researching, and something we might consider for future versions.

re: Equation Numbering

Rodolfo Oviedo — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:40:54 GMT

Thank you for your response.

The efficient use of equations and their numbering is the reason I was planning to upgrade to Office 2007 (and Vista, and computer). If I am better off by using MathType, I will not upgrade. That is why I am very interested in this topic.

I guess there should be an easy way to replicate the features of MathType and posting an add-in or add-on (I do not know the difference between both.) in the web to download.

The features of Mathtype to replicate would be:

1) There should be an easy way to number an equation you originally created as unnumbered and vice versa. Many times you realize you have to reffer to an equation only after you wrote it.

2)There should be no problems when you increase or decrease margins. I do not know if the tables proposed in this blog will accommodate automatically. In Mathtype, you do not use tables. You use an Equation Style that includes tabs: a Center Tab to center the equation and a Right Tab to align the number of the equation to the end of the line. If you change the margins the solution is the following: You place the pointer in a line with the Equation Style. You open the Equation Style dialogue box. You select the Automatically Update check box. Click OK. After that, modify the placement of the tabs as needed. Then, all other lines including Equation Style will be modified automatically.

3) One should be able to change the numbers format (e.g. (3) to (2.3), where 2 is the chapter, for a whole document.