Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Wysiwyg Equation Editor

By Peter Martin

Some people can see mathematical equations in their head and can write down just the basic figures they need to bring the answer into focus or just the answer itself. Tesla the inventor of radio technology was able to do complex calculus in his head and was given a failing grade in school because he couldn't work it out any other way i.e. on paper.

Today most people are found to be visual and need to see the work on paper (or on the screen) to get a full grasp on the equation and to render an answer accurately. With the Wysiwyg Equation Editor by Microsoft, this is now made easier.

The Wysiwyg Equation Editor is designed and included with all Microsoft Office 2007 and higher suites and is designed as a wysiwyg editor (what you see is what you get) that allows people the ability to generate calculations in a very visual way. It is a real time calculator as well as a graphical tool that can be used for many other applications as well.

For example, if you are creating an equation, you may move the equation to another application by using the XML markup language which is included in the control. The control may additionally be embedded by using an OLE embedded object feature on supported applications.

This makes this a dynamic editor that can become quite useful in many mathematical applications, as well as working with programs to generate a calculation formula of something dependent on this to function, there by adding functionality to the program that would have otherwise taken more coding to pull off.

An important application that I have seen for this WYSIWYG Equation Editor is in formulation sciences and chemistry. This allows the user to build and save their equations in pretty much the same sort of way you would write them out on a school room chalk board, then turning the board over to save the equation while you work on another one.

Adopting this format it's possible for you to save your work digitally, then import it to programs and even export it to a web-site page if you like. In essence it's an sophisticated visual calculator with significantly more built-in functions. - 16928

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