MathType 6: Equation Editor on Steroids

By Ricky Buchanan • August 22, 2008

Design Science has announced the release of MathType 6, a new version of its mathematical equation editor for Mac OS X.

A major upgrade that adds support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Intel Macs, and Microsoft Office 2008. New features include TeX/LaTeX input, the ability to copy equations to and from Wikipedia, and more. MathType is the full-featured, 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.

This new version of MathType is able to export equations as image files and objects to paste into a regular word processor, and also in the MathML and LaTex formats mentioned in ATMac’s previous Doing Math on a Mac article. MathType also has a very configurable set of keyboard shortcuts and the ability to input equations via typing only, so it can be used by non-mouse-users with very little difficulty.

There are some known issues with MathType and MS Office 2008 for Mac, but these won’t affect your ability to put MathType equations in your MS Office documents.

Website: MathType

- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac

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Ricky Buchanan

Ricky Buchanan is 34 years old and the founder and main writer for ATMac. She's bedridden with severe CFS/ME or perhaps a primary mitochondrial disorder - the doctors are not sure. When she's not working on ATMac or her other websites she composes music, listens to audio books, does other disability advocacy, watches TV with her flatmate, and enjoys her cat.

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