[OS X TeX] Equation Service

[Chip Brock]

Hi
This is cool...the way to make it way-cool would be if it could somehow -
drag and drop, great; copy and paste, good too - communicate with
powerpoint. One of the big problems in giving scientific talks using
powerpoint is equation presentation. Most of us treat this like with high
resolution postcript graphics/plots: make a pdf and use the Acrobat graphic
selection tool to copy and then paste into powerpoint. The pdf rendering is
preserved. If Equation Service could somehow be used that way, then one
could eliminate many steps! Right now, I don't seem to be able to make it
work with powerpoint out of Office X...

Thanks,
Ray Brock

On 3/21/02 1:59 PM, "Doug Rowland" <rowland at belka.space.umn.edu> wrote:

> Dear readers of the MacOSX-TeX mailing list:
> 
> I just wanted to let you know about a new OS X app I have written.  It's
> called "Equation Service" and it's a specialized front-end to pdflatex meant
> for typesetting equations and small amounts of text.
> 
> The main feature of Equation Service is that it is a system service.  Any
> services-aware app that supports string output and PDF/TIFF input will gain
> the ability to turn a highlighted string into a small typeset PDF from
> pdflatex.
> 
> The beauty of Equation Service is that these small PDF files can be made
> exactly the size of the typeset equation, so you can be typing along in
> Mail, TextEdit, OmniGraffle, iOrganize, etc, type a LaTeX equation,
> highlight it, and then call Equation Service to insert the typeset version
> right at the cursor.
> 
> It's hard to describe, but if you're interested, please check out the
> webpage
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/dougrowland/EquationService (main page)
> 
> http://homepage.mac.com/dougrowland/EquationServiceAbout.htm  (about
> Equation Service)
> 
> Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions for
> improvements.  This is meant to be open-source freeware, but the source is
> still a little messy and needs work before I release it.
> 
> Especially useful would be improved "templates" that let you input long
> numbered equations or equation arrays and that would fit the PDF file just
> around the appropriate bounding box.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Doug Rowland
> rowland at fields.space.umn.edu
> 
> 
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