Re:LaTeX Math in MS Office
by jahewson on Sunday July 30, 2017 @07:07PM
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Huh? The example formula looks great. I really can't fault it. I think maybe you just don't like the font, Cambria Math.
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Re:LaTeX Math in MS Office
by adrianratnapala on Sunday July 30, 2017 @10:39PM
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I don't particularly like the font, although I only really object to the theta.
There are other nitpicks: The pi looks too italic to me, though I can't really say its wrong (whatever "wrong" means). The spacing between the integral sign and the integrand is too big -- but this is a common problem even in real LaTex.
Overall, it looks decent but just not as nice as the maths that TeX has been pumping out for decades now.
As long as we're nitpicking, the d in front of the theta shouldn't really be italicizes, anyway. I'd class that more as an input error than an output error, though.
Actually, many mathematics authors use an italic d while the upright d convention is standard in physics and engineering.
Re:LaTeX Math in MS Office
by adrianratnapala on Monday July 31, 2017 @02:41AM
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Is that to disambiguate it from the upright d in exterior calculus?
That would be funny, as that symbol was chosen specifically to overload with the traditional little-d notation from Leibniz.
Don't tell them that Microsoft developed the OpenType Math specification that LuaTeX uses.
Re:LaTeX Math in MS Office
by torrent-of-ions on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:54AM
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The square root denominator looks too low to me. It makes the whole thing look lopsided. The TeX version looks better to me: http://latex2png.com/output//latex_9c2d6d68604c4a04a90acc777...