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On my old 486, I wrote about 80 page document about signal processing in Word, full of painstakingly created equations, until one day, all equations basically d
by megous 8y ago
On my old 486, I wrote about 80 page document about signal processing in Word, full of painstakingly created equations, until one day, all equations basically disappeared or became uneditable. I learned my lesson there about wysiwyg.
- ModernMech 8y agoThings have improved since 1989. Give it a shot again, you might be surprised!
- megous 8y ago1999 and it doesn't seem like, from other answers. The thing is that time invested in learning superior alternatives is already spent, and there's no point taking the risks just to try for no reason. Just like I will not create another website in FrontPage.
- kej 8y agoThey did completely overhaul the equation system in Office 2007 so that you edit them with unicode text instead of the proprietary OLE editor from previous versions. The document [1] describing how they use unicode characters to structure mathematical expressions is pretty interesting, even if you never touch MS Word again. [1] https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath.pdf https://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath.pdf
- megous 8y agoThe compilable C++ snippet certainly looks interesting. It answers the question I always had, about why some languages added unicode identifiers. It doesn't look all that bad.
- com2kid 8y agoWord also supports LaTeX for equations! https://support.office.com/en-us/article/linear-format-equations-using-unicodemath-and-latex-in-word-2e00618d-b1fd-49d8-8cb4-8d17f25754f8 https://support.office.com/en-us/article/linear-format-equat...