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May 9, 2008, 10:14 pm
Website Design
Microsoft Equation Editor
Microsoft supply an equation editor with Office. I used Office 2000 for this investigation and the editor can be found in Office Tools on the CD.
For test purposes, I used a book from my dim and distant past, "Mechanics of Fluids" by Duncan, Thom and Young. I copied some text and placed it into a Word document. A fairly painful process ensued as I moved between normal text and inserting a few equations. Finally I saved the document as a web page. The results can be viewed here.
As usual Microsoft have employed their own unique methods, which I should add are often successful. However, on this occasion I think they are less than impressive. The layout of my document was not preserved, even though the process of translation involved creating a large amount of gifs. Consequently, I am not convinced that tutors would wish to use this method of transferring content to the Web.
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