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though not Keynote (yet?) Mac's in-built but largely unknown Grapher app has the best equation editor I've used. Super easier to use, automatic sub/superscript

by Osmium 9y ago

though not Keynote (yet?) Mac's in-built but largely unknown Grapher app has the best equation editor I've used. Super easier to use, automatic sub/superscripting, and you can right-click to copy as LaTeX. Makes me sad that Grapher seems to be abandoned -- Apple invests a lot in pro apps, and consumer apps like Garageband. Where's the love for science/math? Surely the market is as large as the market for, say, musicians? There are a lot of engineers/scientists out there.

dman 9y ago
Math / science folks need to rebrand as "Creators" to get some love from Apple.
Someone 9y ago
As a workaround, you _can_ copy and paste equations between Pages and Keynote. It even round trips in the sense that you can edit an equation that was copy-pasted to Keynote by copying it back to Pages.
- Osmium 9y ago
  This is really useful, thank you! As much as I love Keynote it'd be sooo useful to have native equation support, and native code syntax highlighting (can't they port this from XCode?)
mtl_usr 9y ago
It's been abandoned for quite some time. Apple is slowly pulling out of academia, where they used to shine quite well.
- Osmium 9y ago
  Yeah, that's really sad. If Apple wants to get back into this, they'd be welcomed with open arms. If Grapher ever gets abandoned, I really hope they open source it. An update for the icons to be retina-ready, and moving the backend to Metal, and maybe easier integration into Keynote/Pages, would be all it needs to make a kiss-ass product. It'd be so far beyond anything anywhere else. Can you imagine how nice it would be for students to easily be able to embed/edit mathematical graphs into their documents? It's crazy, there's a whole generation of people who grew up with graphing calculators, and yet it's such an ordeal to do something similar in Pages or Numbers right now.

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though not Keynote (yet?) Mac's in-built but largely unknown Grapher app has the best equation editor I've used. Super easier to use, automatic sub/superscript

by Osmium 9y ago

dman 9y ago
Math / science folks need to rebrand as "Creators" to get some love from Apple.
Someone 9y ago
As a workaround, you _can_ copy and paste equations between Pages and Keynote. It even round trips in the sense that you can edit an equation that was copy-pasted to Keynote by copying it back to Pages.
- Osmium 9y ago
  This is really useful, thank you! As much as I love Keynote it'd be sooo useful to have native equation support, and native code syntax highlighting (can't they port this from XCode?)
mtl_usr 9y ago
It's been abandoned for quite some time. Apple is slowly pulling out of academia, where they used to shine quite well.
- Osmium 9y ago
  Yeah, that's really sad. If Apple wants to get back into this, they'd be welcomed with open arms. If Grapher ever gets abandoned, I really hope they open source it. An update for the icons to be retina-ready, and moving the backend to Metal, and maybe easier integration into Keynote/Pages, would be all it needs to make a kiss-ass product. It'd be so far beyond anything anywhere else. Can you imagine how nice it would be for students to easily be able to embed/edit mathematical graphs into their documents? It's crazy, there's a whole generation of people who grew up with graphing calculators, and yet it's such an ordeal to do something similar in Pages or Numbers right now.