[OS X TeX] Equation Service

[U. Steiner]

why don't you use Acrobat to do presentation.  Works very well and you 
can use LeTeX typesetting to make the entire presentation, including 
equations.

- Ulli


On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 08:43 PM, Chip Brock wrote:

> 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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