A formula editor is a name for a computer program that is used to typeset mathematical works or formulae.
Formula editors typical serve two purposes:
- They allow word processing and publication of technical content either for print publication, or to generate raster images for web pages or screen presentations.
- They provide a means for users to specify input to computational systems that is easier to read and check than plain text input and output from computational systems that is easy to understand or ready for publication.
Content for formula editors can be provided manually using a markup language,eg TeX or MathML, via a point-and-click GUI, or as computer generated results from symbolic computations such as Mathematica.
Some systems are capable of re-formatting formulae into simpler forms or to adjust line-breaking automatically, while preserving the mathematical meaning of a formula.
Available systems
| Keyboard input | GUI input | TeX support | MathML support | Raster export | Automatic expression layout | Computation support | Notes | |
| Aurora | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Microsoft Office addon. Renders using TeX. |
| DragMath | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Java applet. Open source. |
| Expressionism | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Browser-based WYSIWYG editor. |
| Formulator MathML Weaver | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | ||
| Jex | Yes | Yes | No | No | Designed to insert and edit equations in Openoffice | |||
| KFormula | Yes | |||||||
| LyX | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |||
| Maple | Yes | Yes | export only | export only | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Mathematica | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| MathType | Yes | Yes | Yes | export only | Yes | No | No | |
| MathFlow | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| Microsoft Equation Editor 3.0 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
| OpenOffice.org Math | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |||
| MathMagic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Pro Editions mainly used for desktop publishing by Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress users. Mac OS X and Windows. |
| MathCast | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Open source | |
| MiraiMath | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Java WYSIWYG Editor, Open Source |
| Publicon | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Mathematica-based technical document system |
| Microsoft Word 2007 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | A graphing-calculator plug-in is available for simple calculations and manipulations | |
| LaTeXiT | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Mac OS X unofficial universal binary. Open source. | |
| Rapid-Pi | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Microsoft Word plugin | |
| TexPoint | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | PowerPoint plugin for inserting LaTeX equations |
| MyTexPoint | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | a small free program for inserting LaTeX equations into PowerPoint with a screen-shot tool |
| IguanaTex | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Free PowerPoint plugin for inserting LaTeX equations |
| TeX4PPT | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Free PowerPoint plugin for inserting LaTeX equations |
| Texify | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | An online LaTeX equation writer. Based on open source mimeTeX library. |
| WebEQ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| EditLive! WebEQ Equation Editor | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| MathDox formula editor | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | JavaScript editor for creating OpenMath, Computations are now possible via external web services, but integration of these web services is under construction |
| Sentido | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | JavaScript editor for creating OpenMath |
| WIRIS editor | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | WIRIS editor |
See also
Categories: Formula editors
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