Equation Editor

[eyemac]

I’m running Office 1.1.6 with 10.4.4 and Equation Editor always quits on me.
First I repaired permissions—nothing, then trashed the application and it’s
prefs, still nothing. Finally I did an uninstall and reinstall of Office,
still the same. The Equation Editor icon will appear briefly in dock and
then close with an error message. Any suggestions?

 

[Elliott Roper]

I’m running Office 1.1.6 with 10.4.4 and Equation Editor always quits on
me.
First I repaired permissions—nothing, then trashed the application and
it’s
prefs, still nothing. Finally I did an uninstall and reinstall of Office,
still the same. The Equation Editor icon will appear briefly in dock and
then close with an error message. Any suggestions?

I gave up on it. I use a freeware thing called "equation service" from
http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/EquationService/
It is a bit of a task to install, since you have to drag in the whole
PDFLaTex thing to support it, but then once you have that, it is a
delight.

Of course, once you have LaTeX, you will start asking why you are
bothering with Word, particularly if you are setting mathematics for a
critical audience.

The equation service is a neat halfway house that lets you keep talking
to the corporate jobsworth culture while sneaking up on them with
superior looking maths expressions.

 

[Michel Bintener]

The same thing happened to me after I'd disabled some obscure font (can't
remember which one) in the Font Book, but it took me a while to realise that
this was the cause of the problem. Have you by any chance messed with the
fonts on your system?

 

[eyemac]

Interesting thought, but shouldn’t the uninstall and reinstall take care of
that?

 

[Michel Bintener]

No, not as far as I know. The Office installer will only check if the
required fonts are present, not if they are enabled. I might be wrong with
this assumption, but I guess it's worth a try.

 

[eyemac]

I took your advise, enabled all my fonts and POW it works just fine.