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	Oct 30 2007	BILL CLINTON MathEQ (formerly known as Expressionist) is the best-of-breed mathematical typesetter, providing ease of use with exceptionally good output. I have used it for many years and have also tried (extensively) the others as they have appeared, including (especially) the free program that is commonly shipped with Word and other word processors. For those reviewers who tout LaTeX, you should know that they are techies who love messing around with computers as opposed to getting their main work done. LaTeX is a mark-up language that does not let you even see how your program will look without going through a separate rendering stage; in the meantime, you are looking at gobbledygook expressions. With all respect to to Donald Knuth whose TeX is the basis for LaTeX, please--join the twentieth (that is, 20th) century. If you really want to use TeX or LaTeX, GraphEQ will politely export in that format. But in the meantime, you get to set your equations using common GUI techniques. (Version 4.0.8)		0
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Oct 30 2007

PJM Wow, touchy! Really, latex is only hard when you're trying to customise document formats beyond what's supported "out of the box": for simply inserting equations into another application (eg as editable pdf's via linkback and latexit) it's at least as easy as driving the hideous GUI that's part of MathEQ.

Still, if you can't tell the difference between the output from Microsoft Word's Equation Editor (which MathEQ resembles to a frightening degree: maybe they have common parentage?) and an equation typeset in latex then I wish you luck... If you can, and appreciate the extra quality of the output, then the "techy" barrier to using latex will look trivial.
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	Mar 23 2007	MARK EVERITT I agree. LaTeX is free and easy to learn. It is also the de jure typesetting format for most scientific publications, and has been for quite a while now. LaTeXiT is a neat little utility for turning LaTeX equations into drag-and-drop pdf images. (Version 4.0.7)		0
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	Mar 22 2007	SIGNORE ROSSI Try a free and versatile solution like LaTeXiT first! Or begin to write whole reports with LaTeX. It's not difficult at all! Especially when it comes to reports containing a lot of mathematics... Just an advice from a satisfied TeX user... (Version 4.0.7)		0
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