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This is not actual LaTeX document support. It's just the math portion of it, same as in, e.g., MathJax. So LaTeX packages will likely not ever be supported, thi
by ygra 9y ago
This is not actual LaTeX document support. It's just the math portion of it, same as in, e.g., MathJax. So LaTeX packages will likely not ever be supported, this is only a convenience for people who'd like to write math as in LaTeX instead of UnicodeMath.
- xattt 9y agoApple did this and MS is following. Is there something going on with MathType? Has it fallen on the radar?
- ygra 9y agoI think MathType still exists, but since it works by embedding an OLE object into the document there are limits in how well it integrates with other features of the platform. It's the equivalent of having to insert equations as images in LaTeX and editing them via a different application. Change your document font and the equations won't care, change font size or colour and the equations won't care, etc.
- Kwpolska 9y agoMicrosoft Equation Editor (effectively, MathType demo version) was deprecated in Office 2007 and replaced by a new custom system, that has supported AutoCorrect for TeX (eg. \pi → π) for quite some time, and that looks much better than MathType ever did.
- WorldMaker 9y agoMicrosoft seems to be particularly trying to push people to UnicodeMath [1][2] as a standard math exchange format. It sounds like from the blog post that (La)TeX math support is almost a "free" bonus given UnicodeMath is somewhat based on TeX prefix patterns (but as Unicode characters and joiners as much as possible) and the UnicodeMath standard supports a somewhat trivial conversion between the two. [1] http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1.pdf http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v3.1.p... [2] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2016/09/07/unicodemath/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/murrays/2016/09/07/unicodem...