Positions in a formula where EXP may split the formula if it needs to. If later editing orįormatting changes caused the formula to appear on one line, you would have to delete the space and add the two subformulas back together again. You would have to split the formula manually into two subformulas separated by a space so that the formula could be split at the end of the line. This is because a formula is just a graphic and a graphic cannot be split across two Word's equation editor does not allow an inline formula to be split at the end of a line.That means the Word document is 42 times larger than the EXP document. An EXP document containing the same thing is 3,948 bytes long. Of x-squared (x^2) is 167,424 bytes long. A Word document containing nothing except 256 occurrences In EXP, only the native EXP representation needs to be stored, and thus much less space is required to store documents.Īs an example of the tremendous difference in storage requirements between Word and EXP, consider the following example. Graphical representation that can be displayed by Word. Word's equation editor introduces a huge storage overhead because it must store (for each formula) the native representation that can be edited by the equation editor and a.Although Word itself provides many levels of undo, the equation editor has its own undo system that provides only a single level of undo.In EXP you only have to perform the following steps to insert the mapsto symbol:.At this point Word's document window will suddenly shift down as the equation editor's toolbar is hidden and Press ESC to exit the equation editor and return to Word.Click the mouse on the symbol palette to choose the mapsto symbol.You have to remember which symbol palette contains a given symbol or otherwise you must spend Click the mouse to open the drop-down symbol palette for the mapsto symbol.When the equation editor starts, Word's document window suddenly shifts up as Word's toolbars are hidden and the equation editor's toolbar appears. Press DOWN multiple times to select the entry titled "Microsoft Equation 3.0".Press ALT, I, O to display the Object dialog box.For example, consider the steps necessary to type the LaTeX symbol called "mapsto". Using EXP to type math is much faster and more convenient than using Word.With EXP, all math and text editing is performed within an integrated environment. This switch is not only annoying but can be very timeĬonsuming as well. To type math with Word, you must constantly switch back and forth between "Word mode" and "Equation Editor mode".The following subsections describe some of the major differences between using EXP and using Word to create documents containing mathematics. The reason for taking the time to develop a specialized word processor for mathematics was that the add-on approach is very limited and noĪmount of work can solve its underlying problems. WYSIWYG program that takes this approach.
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For this reason, EXP for Windows is the only The amount of work and expertise involved in implementing this integrated approach is much greater than for Word's add-on approach. EXP: The Integrated ApproachĮXP's approach to allowing mathematics to be incorporated into a document is to provide a specialized word processor that fully integrates text and mathematics word-processing Mathematics do not have one or two uses of mathematical notation per page (as one might with graphics) but rather they have dozens and dozens. There are many flaws with this approach, but perhaps the most striking one is that it regards mathematics as being like a special kind of graphic. Incorporate the formula into the Word document, the equation editor inserts the formula as a graphic. Word then starts the equation editor so you can compose the equation. Into a Word document, you instruct Word that you want to insert an Equation object into the document. The equation editor provides all the math editing and formatting functionality because Word itself knows nothing about mathematics typography. Word's approach to allowing mathematics to be incorporated into a document is to provide an add-on (ActiveX/OLE) equation editor that allows the user to create and edit mathĮxpressions. In order to compare EXP with Word, one needs to understand the approach each program takes to the problem of providing mathematics word processing in the Windows environment. This document highlights differences between using EXP and using Microsoft Word 2000 to create documents containing mathematics. EXP Versus Word for Mathematical Documents