How do you type math equations?

Create any complex equations and formulae in Grapher.app in the Utilities folder inside the Applications folder.

Menu > New > Graph Palette > Default > Choose > type equation in area under the Toolbar

Menu > Window > Show Equation Palette

to format the equation.

When you are finished, drag over the equation and Copy/Paste it into Pages.

Peter

I have prepared more details here:

http://www.freeforum101.com/iworktipsntrick/viewtopic.php?p=546&mforum=iworktips ntrick#546

Peter

Or you can get an application like MathType or MathMagic.

MathType is the only equation editor that integrates directly into Pages. If you have MathType installed, there will be an MathType Equation command in the Insert menu. Choose the command, create the equation, close MathType (no copy/paste, no screen shots).

I followed discussions and conclude that apple should exert its effort to include equation writer in pages in order it to be more useful for engineers. One of my office mates criticizes Mac products as geared toward the art industry and not for engineers and scientists. I hope this changes since I love the Mac system now that I am using it.

pedrodtjr wrote:

apple should exert its effort to include equation writer in pages in order it to be more useful for engineers.

To let them know that, use

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Apple has been served notice that to win usage by engineers and scientists, equation reading and writing have to be integrated into pages.

How has Apple "been served notice"?

You posting it here?

Apple famously pays absolutely no attention to its users and if you have been in an Apple Store, or these forums lately, they are not exactly full of Nobel Prize candidates.

Peter

With no slight to MathType, and with a bit of humor, one can generate equations natively on OS X. From the command line. Using tools that predate Apple and Microsoft. Well the original tools anyway. Here, I have borrowed groff(1) from GNU and took advantage of everything in Mavericks. Some of the older, published scientists had no choice but to submit papers to the IEEE in this format.

The source file, with the command-line syntax as a comment, that generates a 0.6 inch x 3.35 inch PDF image of an equation. This PDF can be dragged and dropped into either Pages application, with minimal scaling.

eqn.mom

\# groff -e -Tps -P-p0.6i,3.35i -mom eqn.mom | pstopdf -i -o eqn.pdf
\#
.L_MARGIN 0.15i
.R_MARGIN 0.15i
.PT_SIZE 12
.EQ
G(z) ~=~ e sup { ln ~ G(z) }
    ~=~ exp left ( sum from k>=1 { S sub k z sup k } over k right )
    ~=~ prod from k>=1 e sup { S sub k z sup k /k }
.EN

And, the resulting PDF equation image breaking up a Latin dance party: