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In article <7748@mace.cc.purdue.edu> nvi@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Charles C. Allen) writes:
>
>Design Science says that MathType is not compatible with System 7.
>The tech person I talked to said they expected a fixed version in 2-3
>months.
>
>Frankly, I've been very dissappointed with Design Science support.
>There have always been bugs in MathType (yes, we have the latest
>version, 2.11), and not having a System 7 version ready is very
>irksome.

Frankly, so have I. There are severe bugs with MathType & the HP Deskwriter.
They suggested I contact HP to find a solution. The bugs with the Deskwriter
and MathType are severe enough that I've resorted to using OzTeX.

Another MathType User writes:

> 
> I am a frequent user of MathType (v.2.11).  But I typically only use 
> it to generate TeX code.  Anyway I have been using it along with 
> sys. 7 for a couple of weeks with no problems.  It behaves as it did
> with sys. 6.0.5 for me.
> 
> What is *REALLY* irksome is that Apple does not have a sys. 7 
> compatable version of its own MPW (at least availible to common
> folk) until later this month.  What is the explanation for this.
> 
> John Arvidson
> arvidson@euclid.math.colostate.edu
> 

I have experienced many "bugs" in the TeX expressions which MathType generates.
And the comments which MathType inserts for itself is just very annoying.

Jeffrey Chen
JYE@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU