MathType now supports Leopard, Intel Macs
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 20, 2008 at 10:32am
Design Science has released MathType 6, a new version of its mathematical equation editor for Mac OS X. The upgrade adds support for Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) and Intel Macs.
It also supports Microsoft Office 2008. Other new features include TeX/LaTeX input, the ability to copy equations to and from Wikipedia, and more. MathType is a professional version of the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office and many other products, and is used by math and science educators, engineers, research scientists, students and publishing professionals to include mathematical notation in printed documents, presentations and web pages.
MathType 6 for Macintosh enables the user to copy equations from existing TeX documents, and scientists who already know the TeX typesetting language can now type expressions directly into MathType. What’s more, it now works with Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that contains thousands of pages with mathematical equations.
Users can do research on Wikipedia and copy relevant equations for use in their own work. MathType equations can also be copied into Wikipedia’s page editor to create new pages, or edit existing ones. With MathType 6 for Mac you can copy or drag equations from any web page that contains accessible math directly into MathType.
MathType costs US$97 for new users; upgrades are $49.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
