Displaying MathType equations in Writer

users
#1

Someone has sent me to translate an MS doc containing equations written
with MathType. On opening it in Writer the equations often get garbled due,
I guess, to the lack of the appropriate fonts required to display them.
(If relevant I'm using LibreOffice 4.3.0.2 under Linux Mint 17.) Is it
possible to get the fonts?

As a second question, is there any way in which one can edit MathType
equations in Writer? I guess the answer is no.

As someone who frequently is asked to translate mathematical papers (from
Slovak to English) which are written in Word (MS Office rules in this neck
of the woods even in academia) I usually have to resort to getting my other
laptop out, which has Windows on it as LO simply cannot cope reliably with
equations produced in Word. I guess it is almost certainly asking for far
too much for compatibility here. Before somebody asks why academics are
writing mathematical papers in Word and not in Latex, I guess it's because
MS provide the universities with cheap versions of Office and so lock them
in, but then I could be wrong.

Graham

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
I thought the Math (maybe called "Formula" now?) module/app could import
various different formats. MathML 1.01 (mml) might be one MS Office uses?

I'm not sure how much that helps if there are tons of formulae interspersed
with normal text :frowning:

Maybe the Published Guides might help?
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Math_Guide

Good luck! Hopefully someone else here might have a better answer! Please
let us know how this goes
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

As far as I can tell, Writer converts the MathType formulae into OLE
Objects and apart from changing their attributes they cannot be edited.

Graham

#4

Hi Graham,

Use Word, I have the same problem, in fact I've always had this problem
with equations written in Word. Alternatively, I ask for a PDF, and
either retype the formulae (not exactly very profitable, when you're
translating) or else copy/paste the selected formula from the PDF as an
image and insert with anchoring as character. If you have to re-export
it to Word, you can forget compatibility or being able to re-edit the
formulae.

Alex

#5

Alex

My thoughts entirely. It's one (perhaps the only) reason why I have a
machine with windows (and Office) on it.

Graham