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In article <P.Etheridge-091192162720@130.123.3.79>, news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes...
> 
>I beg to differ...  I don't beleive the writer can have explored the
>preferences options available in either the Word 5 Equation Editor,
>MathType (upon which the latter is based) or Expressionist.  These give an
>incredible degree of control, the level of which would be extremely
>time-consuming, tedious and difficult to duplicate with Word's formula
>formatting.  (Text omitted...)

Having used both the Formula expressions and the Equation Editor extensively, I 
agree on the whole.  However, if you try to take parts of these equations into 
your text, you start losing the advantage.  For example, you might have a 
complicated expression, with a term "L sub ir super 3", looking just lovely in 
the equation, but the text goes on to say "...where L sub ir etc is...", and if 
you use the Eq.Ed to put the L sub ir etc in, in the text line, it goes as a 
graphic, the baseline doesn't always come out right, and the line separation 
often increases much more that if you use the Formula expression.  But mix and 
match isn't so great either, because the Eq.Ed uses italics for its symbols, as 
it should, but then you have to italize all the symbols in your text 
expressions by hand.  

I've also found that if you want to use a bitmap font in your Eq. Editor 
expression, it won't print. (I don't know why you would want to, but you can
use the Editor for some fancy text expressions, so perhaps you have some poetry
designed by the Editor, and you want a flowery font you have only in bitmap) 
The font will print from the Word text, but NOT from the Object inserted by the 
Eq. Editor. (At least, it won't on two different laser printers I've tried, 
including an Apple IINTX.)

Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD