Murray Sargent: Math in Office

Browse by Tags

Directionality in Math Zones

In most places, mathematical text is written “left to right” (LTR). For example, in the expression x + y the plus is displayed to the right of the x and the y is displayed to the right of the plus. But in some Arabic locales, mathematical text is written Read More...

Posted Friday, November 13, 2009 12:07 AM by MurrayS | 4 Comments

Equation Numbering Prototype

When writing the Math in Office 2010 post back in July, I could just imagine the disappointment various people would have when they discovered no mention of equation numbering. After getting math into PowerPoint, equation numbering had been the most often Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:33 AM by MurrayS | 10 Comments

RichEdit Friendly Name Hyperlinks

This post is a companion to Automatic RichEdit Hyperlinks . As stated in that post, RichEdit has two kinds of hyperlinks, automatic hyperlinks (autoURLs) and friendly name hyperlinks. A friendly name hyperlink has a name, which is displayed, and a hidden Read More...

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:14 AM by MurrayS | 1 Comments

RichEdit Versions Update to 7.0

The original RichEdit Versions post covered RichEdit versions 1.0 through 6.0, since 6.0 was the latest version at the time. RichEdit 7.0 will ship with Office 2010, so here’s an update describing what that version adds. Most additions involve math editing/display Read More...

Posted Saturday, September 05, 2009 6:16 AM by MurrayS | 1 Comments

Automatic RichEdit Hyperlinks

RichEdit has two kinds of hyperlinks, automatic hyperlinks (autoURLs) and friendly name hyperlinks. As its name suggests, the autoURL is automatically recognized by RichEdit as a hyperlink and is displayed as a URL. A friendly name hyperlink has a name, Read More...

Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 11:00 PM by MurrayS | 3 Comments

Entering Matrices

The Office math ribbon has a few examples of matrices, but you might like to be able to enter a lot more kinds of matrices and enter them substantially faster. For this you can use the linear format (see Sec. 3.9). For example, a 2x2 matrix is entered Read More...

Posted Tuesday, August 18, 2009 5:48 AM by MurrayS | 9 Comments

Math in Office 2010

Imagine typing alt+= in PowerPoint, OneNote, Excel, and, of course, Word and Outlook to enter a math zone and then type a^2+b^2=c^2<space> to see the Pythagorean theorem beautifully typeset on your screen! Or some way more complicated equation, Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2009 1:23 AM by MurrayS | 12 Comments

WordPad Numbering Limit

In Windows 7, WordPad has undergone many improvements even though it uses RichEdit 4.1+ for editing and display. Time and time again, the excellent Hyderabad team responsible for enhancing the Windows 7 WordPad requested very reasonable extensions to Read More...

Posted Friday, June 19, 2009 5:16 PM by MurrayS | 4 Comments

Entering Math via the Linear Format

The previous blog post is on the cool math handwriting recognition shipped with Windows 7. The post includes a description of a race I had entering equations using the linear format with formula autobuildup against a member of the math handwriting recognition Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:16 AM by MurrayS | 1 Comments

Math Handwriting Recognition

The next version of Windows, Windows 7, includes a cool applet called the Math Input Panel . This applet lets you enter mathematical text using a pen or a mouse. It recognizes what you enter and displays the result using a special private version of RichEdit Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:12 AM by MurrayS | 7 Comments

Empty Math Zone Place Holders

You type Alt+= or click the Insert ribbon Equation button, and presto! You’ve inserted an empty math zone place holder that states “Type equation here.” in the language you’re using. Then you type a^2+b^2<space> and you see a 2 + b 2 , except in Read More...

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 5:35 PM by MurrayS | 7 Comments

Restricted Math Zone Character Formatting

A number of character formatting properties are treated differently in a math zone than they are in ordinary text. These include underline, strikeout, math font face and size, subscript and superscript. This post discusses how these properties differ Read More...

Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 3:46 PM by MurrayS | 6 Comments

RichEdit Paragraph Indents

RichEdit paragraph indents are based on the original RichEdit 1.0 definitions. These differ somewhat from Microsoft Word’s definitions and hence from TOM’s (RichEdit’s Text Object Model), which were developed in collaboration with the Word team. In addition, Read More...

Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 9:38 PM by MurrayS | 1 Comments

OMML Specification, Version 2

The OMML (Office math markup language) specification has been improved in response to the great feedback we received from the ISO reviews. It’s part of the full OpenXML documentation Version 2 and is very handy to have if you’re working with OMML. The Read More...

Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 7:36 PM by MurrayS | 4 Comments

The Math Paragraph

The earlier post Breaking Equations into Multiple Lines describes equation line breaking and alignment. In particular, l ong equations often do not fit on a single line and need to be broken up for display on multiple lines. Word 2007 offers two approaches: Read More...

Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 5:07 AM by MurrayS | 2 Comments