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Pages does not renumber equations; also, MathMagic
Authored by: billclinton on Aug 23, '07 01:00:33AM

Pages is essentially worthless for any work requiring more than a handful of equations and thus requiring automatic numbering and renumbering. Ditto for tables, figures, etc. It is simply an inappropriate tool for such uses.

It befuddles me over and over when word processors omit such a basic and easily-implemented (and easily-used) capability.

Maybe someone can tell me a workaround—I'd be glad to hear it.

On another note, MathMagic is currently the best GUI-based equation setter available for the Macintosh. Equation Editor and MathType have sucked for a long time in not giving high quality results; I haven't used them for a long time so tell me I'm wrong. Last I checked, Equation Editor crashed a lot.

And don't forget the venerable MathEQ (né Expressionist), a very early entry from the late 1980's which is still available and still puts out extremely high quality stuff. While you're on their web site, be sure to pick up the cream of the computer mathematics programs, Live Math (né Theorist).

TeX and LaTeX are of course the epitome in terms of typesetting quality (thanks, Prof. Knuth) but the mark-up language must be mastered first. As others have mentioned, some of the alternatives (including MathMagic) export LaTeX code, if you don't mind the extra steps.



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