Does Pages support mathML?
Can I import mathML or Latex format math expressions to pages and how?
MacBook, MacBook Air
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Can I import mathML or Latex format math expressions to pages and how?
MacBook, MacBook Air
With the update today it is now supported, Add mathematical equations to your document in Pages - Apple Support
A list of tools to help generate mathML or LaTeX https://www.w3.org/wiki/Math_Tools#Authoring_toolsMathMagic has been around forever I have used MathMagic Lite, but it doesn't export, I would have happily paid a little for a licence if there was this integration when I needed it.
Pages only works directly with MathType.
Apple's iBooks Author app can handle latext and mathml:
then is it possible to save the iBook files in pages? if yes, how?
surrati wrote:
then is it possible to save the iBook files in pages?
No, iBA only produces .books or .pdf format. You could try copy/paste from iBA into Pages, or importing pdf into Pages, but what happens to equations you would have to test.
What do you need to produce? Perhaps iBA would work for that.
thanks, that what i am looking for.
if i past the equation form MathML in iBA. then i export it to Pages.
i am looking to write down my PhD defense in easy to use word editor, LATEX is wasting time and effor. defietly i need to wrire lots of mathimatical equations and formula.
i feel pages is very easy to write with and can handle large documents like 200 to 300 pages, is it?
is there any good reference in colaborating endnotes, with pages? because i just made few tests, and found that the bibilography is not updating wiht the citation numbers.
Surrati, for your PhD defense, I don't think you'll be satisfied with using MathML in iBA, then exporting to Pages. The equations will come across as images in Pages, so if you have to edit one, you'll have to do it in iBA, then copy & paste it again. Why not just use MathType? MathType supports MathML as well, and integrates into Pages such that you can double-click to edit the equations. Be aware though: Apple has a bug in Pages 5.0 and 5.0.1 such that if you do not open MathType first, you may not be able to insert equations. This article explains it: http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn146.htm
thanks, that is great
do you mean that i can export directly from MathML to MathType? that mean any mathML fromat equation can be insterted in MathType?
i am conerned about this, because i want to handwrite my equations, which is easier, in my iPad then exposrt it in MathML format to Pages. then Pages can open it using MathType? is this scenario applicable?
surrati wrote:
...i want to handwrite my equations, which is easier, in my iPad then exposrt it in MathML format to Pages. then Pages can open it using MathType? is this scenario applicable?
This scenario is applicable, but it's not completely seamless. Here's what I'd do:
You may be able to automate these steps with OS X's Automator.app, but I don't know. I've never done that.
If you decide to go that route, please let us know how it goes. I have a video showing the above process. Let me know if you'd like to see it and I'll post the link.
I'm not following how you get from the MyScript MathPad iOS app to Pages for Mac.
Jerry
You're right; I wasn't very clear about that. I'm glad you asked.
The easiest way is to use iCloud, since it's the cloud service with the closest integration to Pages for Mac and Pages for iOS. That said though, there's no reason other similar services wouldn't work -- Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, etc.
Since the document I'm using resides in iCloud, I just open it directly on the iPad, and when I switch back to Documents, it synchronizes that copy with the cloud copy (and maybe more often than that; I don't really know about that). The "Open" screen in Pages for Mac gives a choice of "iCloud" or "On My Mac". If iCloud is selected, the document should be the first one listed since it's likely the most recently updated. Select it, click Open, and you're in business.
Like I mentioned in my other description, there's a lot of steps involved here, but if you want to use MathML in a document that's editable on both Mac and iOS, that's the only way I know to do it.
At the present time, iWork '13 apps are incompatible with Dropbox, according to numerous reports. I've no idea about the others.
Jerry
You're correct that the iOS versions of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers are incompatible with Dropbox. The OS X versions are compatible. Here's an article that describes how to get around that incompatibility on Dropbox: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20068049-285/how-to-use-webdav-in-pages-keyn ote-or-numbers-with-dropbox/. Frankly, if it were me and I was only working with my own documents, I'd stick with iCloud. It's easier, and since it's integrated directly into the apps, it's pretty seamless. If you have to collaborate with someone using Dropbox though, I tried the process described in the article and it works.
That information is out of date. It was written in 2011 and doesn't account for Apples chnages in the new bundled archive format for the new Maverick iWork Apps.
Supposedly the file format is now consistent between iOS 7, iCloud and OSX Mavericks. But that is the file format that is being rejected by Dropbox, Google, GMail etc.
Peter
Does Pages support mathML?