MathType 6.5 for Windows Is Shipping

By DE Editors

Design Science (Long Beach, CA) released MathType 6.5 for Windows, a new version designed to work with a wide variety of education and scientific applications and websites. The company introduced its initiative called Equations Everywhere and Anywhere!, hosting the MathType Interoperability Registry on its website, a listing of several hundred popular educational and scientific applications and websites that MathType now works with. This new version also includes translators for Mathematica and Maple, MathML import, and enables users to type TeX/LaTeX equations directly into Microsoft Word.

MathType has long been known as the professional version of the Equation Editor in Microsoft Office, used by educators, scientists, and engineers to create papers and presentations with textbook-quality equations. According to scientific and technical publishers, more than 85 percent of submitted manuscripts containing mathematical notation are Microsoft Word documents with MathType or Equation Editor equations.

MathType is $57 for academic users, $97 for non-academic users; upgrades are $37 for academic users, $49 for non-academic users. Anyone can download MathType from Design Science and try it free for 30 days.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.