User Guide

Chapter 5: Working with Other Applications

Last printed 8/20/2001 9:40 AM

Equation Numbering

If you use Microsoft Word, MathType adds commands to do most of the work

involved in equation numbering for you. See Tutorials 9 and 10 for more details.

If you are not using Microsoft Word, you can format equation numbers using

tabs. For example, using a centering tab stop in the center of your word

processor document and a right-align tab stop at the right margin produces the

results in the picture below.

Of course, different word processing applications may have different tab

formatting capabilities. See your application’s documentation for more specific

information on its tabs and alignment features.

Working with Equation Files

You can save a MathType equation into a file on your hard disk, either as a

Windows Metafile (WMF), an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file, or a Graphic

Interchange Format (GIF) file. You can then import those equation files directly

into other applications. To save an equation file, choose Save As from the File

menu, specify a name and location for the file, and choose the file format you

want from the “Save as type” list. The available types are described below. You

can use the Open command on MathType’s File menu to edit any equation files

created by MathType.

WMF (Windows Metafile) Files

A WMF (Windows Metafile) file is the standard graphic format for Windows

programs. As a result, it is one of the most useful file formats, since any

Windows program that can import a graphic file can usually import a WMF file.

MathType uses fonts to represent all the characters in the WMF files it generates.

This ensures that your equations will be displayed and printed with the highest

possible quality. However, if you move your equations (or the documents that

contain them) to another computer, you must make sure that the fonts they use

are available, or the equations will not display or print properly.

EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) Files

EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files consist of the Adobe PostScript page

description language used to tell a printer how to print the equation. You can

import EPS files into page layout programs like Adobe PageMaker, FrameMaker,

InDesign and QuarkXPress . Because the language used is a printer language

that is fairly universal, you can transfer equations in this format onto any other