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Entering Math by Hand: Enter equations as easily as you would write math with paper and pencil! This feature uses the built-in handwriting recognition in Windows 7.
Point-and-Click Editing with Automatic Formatting: Create equations quickly by choosing templates from MathType's palettes and typing into their empty slots. MathType applies mathematical spacing rules automatically as you type.
Keyboard Shortcuts: Save time using keyboard shortcuts. MathType has customizable keyboard shortcuts for virtually every symbol, template, and command.
Type TeX or LaTeX: If you already know the TeX typesetting language, you can enter equations directly into MathType or Microsoft Word documents. TeX editing can be mixed with point-and-click editing so you get the best of both worlds. You can even paste in equations from existing TeX documents.
Copy-and-Paste: If you created your equation in another application or found one on a website, why take the time to create it by hand again? Simply copy-and-paste it directly into MathType, and it is ready to edit or use in your work.
Save Expressions in the Toolbar: Drag frequently used equations and expressions to the MathType toolbar so they can be inserted later with just a click or a keystroke.
Microsoft Office 2007 & 2010 — MathType Ribbon Tab in Word and PowerPoint: MathType takes full advantage of Office's Ribbon User Interface making it easier than ever to do equation operations in documents and presentations. New equation numbering and browse features work with all Word equation types.
Microsoft Office 2003 and XP (2002) — MathType Toolbar and Menu in Word and PowerPoint: MathType adds a toolbar and menu to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, allowing quick access to its features and powerful commands to do equation numbering, produce great-looking math web pages, presentations, and much more.
Find Symbols: MathType's Insert Symbol dialog allows you to explore the available symbols and insert them with a click or keystroke.
Handwritten math:
Save expressions in the toolbar:
Microsoft Office 2007 & 2010 — MathType Ribbon Tab in Word and PowerPoint:
More Control:
Color: Use color to highlight part of an equation and focus your audience's attention on just the portions you want. Show what changed in each step of a multi-step procedure and make those equations really come to life.
More Fonts: MathType has hundreds more symbols and templates than Equation Editor. Besides our exclusive Euclid™ math fonts, you can also make use of the 1000s of math symbols in fonts already on your computer, as well as other math fonts you can download from the Internet.
MathFlow™ is our family of products providing editing, display, and accessibility of mathematical notation for websites, applications, and services. MathFlow components are widely used in education, publishing, and enterprise solutions, as well as commercial products. The technology at the heart of MathFlow is MathML, the XML standard for representing mathematical notation.
Design Science MathPlayer™ enables Microsoft Internet Explorer to display mathematical notation in web pages. It is based on MathML technology and requires Internet Explorer for Windows version 6.0 and later. We make MathPlayer available for free in order to foster the adoption of MathML in the math, science, and education communities. Download MathPlayer>
Do you have the latest version of MathPlayer?
Use our MathPlayer Installation Check page to see if you have the latest version. If you need to upgrade, find out about MathPlayer's new features here.
MathPlayer User Manual
Right-click on an equation and see what MathPlayer lets you do with it! You can cut-and-paste math into any one of a growing number of MathML-compatible software packages, such as Maple and Mathematica. You can open it in our WebEQ and MathType products for further editing, reuse in your own documents, and much more>.
Authoring math web pages with MathML
Using MathML to put math in your web pages has many advantages over using images or PDFs. Find out how easy it is to create web pages containing MathML using MathType, Microsoft Word, and other tools. more>
Making MathPlayer available to your readers
If you publish web pages containing MathML, readers using Internet Explorer will need to install MathPlayer on their computers. Obviously, one way to do this is to have them download MathPlayer from our website like you probably did. To get some tips on how best to communicate this to your readers using our MathPlayer Logo Program, as well as some alternative distribution options, visit Making MathPlayer Available to your Readers.
MathPlayer and MathML technology
MathML is an XML-based language for encoding mathematics that was standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1998. Many software packages including browsers, editors, computer algebra programs and publishing software use MathML to communicate. Design Science has been involved in MathML technology since it was invented. Find out about our current efforts more>
Are you a teacher or professor that needs to make your Microsoft Word documents readable to your students with vision and learning disabilities? MathDaisy™ enables you to save documents in the DAISY Digital Talking Book format. Your students can use MathPlayer™-enabled DAISY player software to read your classroom materials in the manner that suits their abilities and preferences best.
Make math accessible to your students with disabilities!
So you need to make your classroom materials accessible?
Many state and local educational institutions are now requiring teachers, instructors, and professors to make classroom materials they create accessible to students with disabilities. In the past, this has been difficult to do, especially for materials containing math. MathDaisy now makes it possible for you to save Word documents containing equations as a DAISY electronic book that can be read by your students using MathPlayer-enabled DAISY player software on a personal computer or a dedicated eBook reader.
What is MathDaisy?
MathDaisy works with Microsoft Word, Microsoft's Save As DAISY add-in, and MathType. As you might guess from its name, Save As DAISY adds a "Save As DAISY" menu item to Word's File menu. This command saves the document as a DAISY Digital Talking Book ready to be used in an eBook reader. MathDaisy enhances the Word-to-DAISY conversion process, converting the equations in the document to MathML as required by the DAISY format.
What do I need to save my Word documents in DAISY format?
So you already have Microsoft Word XP, 2003, or 2007 and want to save your documents as DAISY Books so they can be read by your students with disabilities. Here's what you need:
MathDaisy
MathType for equation conversion (purchase or free 30-day trial)
These components may be installed in any order. Once they are installed, just choose Save As DAISY from Word's File menu to convert the document to a MathPlayer-enabled DAISY Book ready to give to your students.
What do I tell my students?
Your students may or may not be familiar with DAISY and DAISY players. Your Disabled Student Services or Assistive Technology Center (DSS/ATC) may be able to help the student. Also, please direct them to the DAISY for Students page where we explain DAISY and list features they should look for in DAISY readers that support math well.
What is DAISY?
DAISY stands for Digital Accessible Information SYstem and is a standard for producing accessible and navigable multimedia documents. This includes Digital Talking Books, digital text books, and synchronized audio/text books. DAISY is a globally recognized standard for accessible content and is part of NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard).
NIMAS/DAISY is part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) reauthorized by the US Congress in 2004. It recommends that state educational agencies supply educational materials in the NIMAS/DAISY format to those students that need them. The impact of this legislation is just starting to be felt. Besides requiring teachers to produce accessible materials, all the major textbook makers are gearing up to produce books in the DAISY Book format.
How is Design Science making math more accessible?
The DAISY Consortium
The NIMAS website
What if my situation is different?
The landscape of products supporting DAISY is constantly evolving. If you are interested in any of the following, please send email to support@dessci.com:
Batch conversion to DAISY: A Disabled Student Services or Assistive Technology Center (DSS/ATC) worker supporting teachers and professors converting documents for student use might want to convert Word documents to DAISY Books in a batch process.
Apple iWork: If you are interested in seeing Save As DAISY integration with Apple Pages, please let Apple know directly via their Pages Feedback page.
OpenOffice: Teachers and professors authoring with OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Word.
Converting PDF or scanned documents: InftyReader may be used to convert legacy PDF or scanned documents to MS Word format, then Save As DAISY used to turn that into DAISY format.
Converting DAISY to other accessible formats: While DAISY format can be read directly with a DAISY player, it can also be converted to other accessible forms that the disabled student might prefer. Services are available for performing such conversions.
What do I need to save my Word documents in DAISY format?
So you already have Microsoft Word XP, 2003, or 2007 and want to save your documents as DAISY Books so they can be read by your students with disabilities. Here's what you need:
MathType for equation conversion
These components may be installed in any order. Once they are installed, just choose Save As DAISY from Word's File menu to convert the document to a MathPlayer-enabled DAISY Book ready to give to your students.
What do I tell my students?
Your students may or may not be familiar with DAISY and DAISY players. Your Disabled Student Services or Assistive Technology Center (DSS/ATC) may be able to help the student. Also, please direct them to the DAISY for Students page where we explain DAISY and list features they should look for in DAISY readers that support math well.
What is DAISY?
DAISY stands for Digital Accessible Information SYstem and is a standard for producing accessible and navigable multimedia documents. This includes Digital Talking Books, digital text books, and synchronized audio/text books. DAISY is a globally recognized standard for accessible content and is part of NIMAS (National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard).
NIMAS/DAISY is part of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) reauthorized by the US Congress in 2004. It recommends that state educational agencies supply educational materials in the NIMAS/DAISY format to those students that need them. The impact of this legislation is just starting to be felt. Besides requiring teachers to produce accessible materials, all the major textbook makers are gearing up to produce books in the DAISY Book format.
What if my situation is different?
The landscape of products supporting DAISY is constantly evolving. If you are interested in any of the following, please send email to support@dessci.com:
Batch conversion to DAISY: A Disabled Student Services or Assistive Technology Center (DSS/ATC) worker supporting teachers and professors converting documents for student use might want to convert Word documents to DAISY Books in a batch process.
Apple iWork: If you are interested in seeing Save As DAISY integration with Apple Pages, please let Apple know directly via their Pages Feedback page.
OpenOffice: Teachers and professors authoring with OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Word.
Converting PDF or scanned documents: InftyReader may be used to convert legacy PDF or scanned documents to MS Word format, then Save As DAISY used to turn that into DAISY format.
Converting DAISY to other accessible formats: While DAISY format can be read directly with a DAISY player, it can also be converted to other accessible forms that the disabled student might prefer. Services are available for performing such conversions.
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