User Guide

Chapter 4: Tutorials
9.
In MathType’s Format menu, choose Inline Equation. This makes MathType
generate the appropriate
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code for an inline equation.
10. Copy the equation and paste it into your text document, and then type is the
most important term. Your document should now look something like this
In the quadratic formula
\[
x = \frac{{ - b\pm \sqrt {b^{2} - 4ac} }}{{2a}}
\]
the discriminant $ {b^{2} - 4ac} $ is the most important
term.
Translator Options
Converting Equations
If you want MathType’s
Convert Equations
command in Word to
work with your
equations, you must turn
on the “Include
MathType data in
translation” and “Include
translator name in
translation” options.
In many situations it is useful to be able to transfer old equations from a
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document back into MathType for editing or re-use. This is possible, provided
the equations were originally created in MathType with suitable translator
options set. To understand the approach, choose Translators from MathType’s
Preferences menu, and check the box labeled “Include MathType data in
translation”. Now create the quadratic formula again and Copy and Paste it into
your text document. This time, the resulting text will be
% MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
% feaaeaart1ev0aaakeaacaWG4bGaeyypa0ZaaSaaaeaacqGHsislca
% WGIbGaeyySae7aaOaaaeaacaWGIbWaaWbaaSqabeaacaaIYaaaaOGa
% eyOeI0IaaGinaiaadggacaWGJbaaleqaaaGcbaGaaGOmaiaadggaaa
% aaaa!0E70!
\[
x = \frac{{ - b\pm \sqrt {b^{2} - 4ac} }}{{2a}}
\]
The first five lines of text (the ones starting with a % sign) are a
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comment
containing MathType’s own private representation of your equation. You must
select this comment when you paste it back into MathType so it will be
converted back into a normal MathType equation. If you omit the comment, or
change it in any way, the transfer back to MathType will not work.
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comments are ignored during the typesetting process, so they will have no effect
on your final output.
MathType’s Translators dialog also provides the “Include translator name in
translation” option, which helps to delineate and identify equations in your
documents. This might be useful if you want to write programs that search your
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source files looking for equations and processing them in some way.
Other Translators
MathType includes translators for several dialects of
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(Plain
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, and AMS-
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). These dialects correspond to various packages of
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