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They 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 vers
by kej 8y ago
They 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...