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Equation Editor or LatexIt
Authored by: zacht on Mar 28, '07 08:25:21AM
Three (old) hints on this site:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030417065555118

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030915192727659

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050209053950215

As others have said, there is now a new program called LatexIt which looks very nice. (I've just started using it recently, and so far, so good.)

When I'm writing quizzes and exams for the math classes I teach, I like to make graphs in Grapher. I use Equation Editor or LatexIt to generate equations. I use drag-and-drop to copy the equations into the Grapher window. Then I export the Grapher graph as a PDF, and include it in Tex using an \includegraphics command. Grapher allows you to change the color and style of curves and points in the figures. I don't do this myself, but it is possible to make the equations different colors as well, using Latex's color package. (Google for "latex usepackage color".) (I don't use color much as quizzes and exams are printed black-and-white.)

It is possible to change fonts in Latex. Google for "latex usepackage fonts". The support is not as simple as one might wish for. In Equation Editor or LatexIt you will have to edit the preamble. Commands like "\usepackage{times}" or "\usepackage{palatino}" (in the preamble) will change the font for text, not for equations. Here is a web page with very good information about math fonts:

http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Free_Math_Font_Survey/survey.html

(I didn't know about this till I was writing the last sentence! :-) )

-Zach


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