Equation Editor Not working Correctly

[Alex Davie]

I installed the Equation Editor on my mac and some of the characters
are not working correctly. For instance when I try to add a "hat"
symbol over a character, it comes out looking like a square root
symbol. A couple others are strange too.

I have Word 2004 along with Leopard if that matters.

Thanks,
Alex

 

[Bob Mathews]

With Equation Editor open, click on Style > Define. Make sure these
styles are set to Symbol font: LCGreek, UCGreek, Symbol. The other
styles should be set to whatever font you're using in Word.

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Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
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[DemeMarc]

I'm having the same problem. All of the appropriate styles are set to
Symbol. More interestingly, sometimes everything will appear normal,
then become corrupt. For example I'll try to make a raised dot over an
'm'. I'll get << over my symbol instead. I close, then reopen the
equation, and I have the raised dot. I close again... what shows up in
Word is << overwritten in the middle of the 'm'.

Very strange.

I'm running Leopard 10.5.1 with Word 2004. The problem appears on two
machines... both PPC (G4 and G5 Quad)

I never had this problem with Tiger.

Please help,
dememarc

 

[Bob Mathews]

I had some private email discussion with the previous poster, and we
couldn't really get to the bottom of the problem. I recommended he
take a look at this article to see if anything there would help, and I
never heard back, so I don't know if it helped or not.
http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn109.htm

Another thing you might try (which I also recommended to the OP) is
download and install the 30-day evaluation of MathType. It will remain
usable beyond the evaluation period as MathType Lite, if you choose
not to buy it. If you don't want to use the evaluation version at all,
download and install it anyway, then immediately uninstall it. The
reason to do that is to install the MathType fonts, and this is the
best way to do that. Since your issue seems to be a font problem of
some sort, this would at least eliminate a corrupted font as a
possible cause.

--
Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType
MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide