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 Whenever you are
familiar with Equations editor or with Latex, Equations! is
for you. IO Software Equations is the advanced equations
editor which combines the power of features with use
simplicity. Supporting over 700 unique symbols with more than
a thousand possible combinations, a vast equation library,
real time Latex editing, using its own scientific fonts,
Equations! is the ultimate equation editor designed by science
people with science people in mind.
Over 700 symbols
supported
Equations! supports 692 Latex tags,
producing over 700 unique symbols, with new symbols being
added regularly. This makes Equations! possibly the most
complete equation editor currently available. A full list of
symbols supported can be seen here.
Latex support with
real time editing
Latex has been for almost 30 years
the preferred way for scientists to create their documents.
Simple and powerful, allowing people to create beautiful
scientific documents it is not difficult to understand why
Latex has endured for so long. Its only drawback is that
users need to virtually remember hundreds of tags to write
their equations, and no software allows them to view in real
time what they write. Until now… Equations! has full latex
syntax support, with 692 (and growing) tags allowed. Latex is
processed in real time, which means whatever you write in
latex can automatically be seen in visual editing area. And
the opposite is also true: if you edit your equation visually
you will see your Latex code be automatically updated. In
Equations! Latex and visual editing are closely interlinked
and by combining both users have an unprecedented power and
ease in writing scientific equations. No longer Latex users
have to remember hundreds of tags as they can easily access
them from the combo boxes. At the same time the visual editor
users can quickly change their equations using the simplicity
and speed of Latex without needing to know any Latex at all.
See documents created with Equations! anywhere
Equations! uses OLE technology to work with programs
like MS Word, PowerPoint, Open Office. This means that
unlike some products you do not need to have Equations!
installed in your computer in order to see any documents
created with it. You can send documents created with
Equations! to your friends and colleagues, you can take them
to meetings, without worrying about if you will be able to see
them or not.
Library
In Equations! users can
save their most common used expressions in the Library for
later reuse. The Equation library comes with two formularies,
one for Physics and another for Mathematics, with hundreds
of equations available that can be consulted and used in
documents. The Library contents format is simple XML which
means that users can easily change, expand, or even create
whole new libraries. They can also publish contents or
exchange them online with other users. Library formularies are
free, and updates can be downloaded here.
User
Community
With the Library we wish to create a bit
more than a simple reference text. We expect and hope that
users will exchange online tips, tricks and library contents
among them forming a user community. To this end we have
created several online forums and we will update regularly the
official Library contents with any equations that users send
us.
Fonts Quality and fonts program
One of the
biggest problems nowadays of writing equations in electronic
documents is that no font currently available supports the
whole range of scientific symbols. This means that users are
often forced to use 2, 3 or even more fonts with different
styles and scales in their documents. We tried to address this
problem in Equations! by developing our own fonts assuring
this way the uniformity of all symbols. It is worth of notice
that our fonts are free for non commercial use and can be
downloaded here. You can too read more about our fonts
development program here.
Color
In Equations!
expressions can be of any color the users like. While standard
Latex does not support color, through the use of the DVIPs
package users can write equation elements with any color of
their choice.
Simplicity and Personalization
A great deal of work and thought was put by IO Software
development team in order to assure that Equations! interface
was simple, practical, and intuitive. It is our philosophy
that our products while powerful and innovative must remain
simple, intuitive, and beautiful. Usability is as much a
concern for us as it is innovation. This way we created combo
boxes with both graphic representation of symbols and their
latex code to faster and better identification. We created
also a Speed Bar to quickly access the most commonly used
symbols and put all features in plain sight, well organized,
so that no confusion can be made. And case all this is not
enough we also give users the choice of changing the symbols
organization and labeling both in combos and speed bar to
better suit their needs.
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