I have not been able to use my yearly subscription to Mathtype in Catalina (except in Windows 10 via Parallels) since upgrading. The company says there won't be a fix until next year (2021). But Microsoft Office 2019 has a limited version of Mathtype that you can download as an add-in, which works fine in Catalina. Why the delay for the standalone version if the office plugin works fine now?
Mac Pro, macOS 10.15
The Microsoft equation tool was originally created by Design Science for early MS Office products. These are the same folks that offered MathType v1.0 in 1987, and before they were acquired last year. Microsoft has long since made the Math code in Office 64-bit, and it is just part of the code pool that gets recompiled with new versions of Office.
IsleofGough wrote:
Why the delay for the standalone version if the office plugin works fine now?
You will have to ask the developer about that. You've been paying a yearly subscription for software that hasn't been updated in over a decade. They could have done this at any time since 2006.
The limited version of MathType to which I believe you refer is the OMML equation editor. In other words, it is not a limited version of MathType. If, like me, you are professional scientist or engineer, the Microsoft version is not good enough. I still have a Mac running Mojave so that I don't lose MathType. Wiris do update Mathtype. It was updated last year to support Sandboxing in more recent versions of Office. (A year ago MathType was not working on the most recent version of Mac Office.) They really should not be charging subscriptions until they have sorted out Catalina. It is the only software that I use that does not work in Catalina and not just that but it seems to spend more time being incompatible with the latest Mac OS and Office combination than it does being compatible.
I've switched back to using LaTeX for a book that I did using MathType. It requires a lot more work and isn't ideal for ePub output, but it works in Catalina and I can use opentype fonts in XeTEX.
The TeX Community on StackExchange has robust answers and should be part of your toolbox for LaTeX.
Once you bookmark this site in Safari, you can then just enter tex in the address field, and the following will expand:
Just press the right-arrow. That will position you at the end of this string, where you insert a space, and then ask your question. Example:
The first hit from that search is entitled, Use LaTeX to produce Epub. The ebook-converter mentioned in that article is installed by the free Calibre e-book management package. Calibre can even take a PDF, and blast out iBook, Kindle, and many other eBook formats.
Unfortunately, I haven't found any of the LaTeX to ePub converters very good, especially if there are cross-references, opentype font designations, etc. Pandoc is probably the best, but the work to convert properly is not worth it. It is easier to maintain a second version in InDesign or Flare or Jutoh (or Sigil or Calibre). Tweaking all the errors in CSS, links, etc. is very time consuming.
Mathtype in Catalina
