MathType 6 for Mac Ups Math-Notation Ability

By DE Editors

Design Science (Long Beach, CA) released MathType 6 for Macintosh, an upgrade that adds support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Intel Macs, and Microsoft Office 2008.

New features include TeX/LaTeX input, the ability to copy equations to and from Wikipedia, and more. MathType is the full-featured, professional version of the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office and many other products, and is used by math and science educators, engineers, research scientists, students, and publishing professionals to include mathematical notation in printed documents, presentations, and web pages.

MathType 6 for Macintosh enables the user to copy equations from existing TeX documents, and scientists who already know the TeX typesetting language can now type expressions directly into MathType.

MathType 6 for Macintosh now works with Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that contains thousands of pages with mathematical equations. Users can do research on Wikipedia and copy relevant equations for use in their own work. MathType equations can also be copied into Wikipedia’s page editor to create new pages, or edit existing ones.

With MathType 6, for Mac you can copy or drag equations from any web page that contains accessible math directly into MathType.

MathType 6 for Macintosh is a Universal application that runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers, and has all the features of MathType 6 for Windows. It is $57 for academic users, $97 for non-academic users; upgrades are $37 for academic users, $49 for non-academic users. Anyone can download MathType from the Design Science website and try it free for 30 days.

For details, contact Design Science, Inc.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.