Does anyone know how I can learn how to write a plugin for iWork like MathType? I can't imagine Apple is actually giving some kind of special opportunity to a company that makes such ugly plugins...
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There is a plug-in for Keynote that lets you use the LinkBack framework. Try looking at that code and go from there.
The LinkBack framework is developed by the Omni Group and is on their GitHub page.
We actually did not develop that plugin. It was written by King Chung Huang, who cannot seem to be reached these days.
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
MathType seems to be broken as of Pages 5.1... it'll launch fine, but it doesn't actually insert anything but a gray box in your documents.
There's nothing at all broken about MathType -- it's Pages (et.al.) that causes MathType to seem like it's broken. But it's not.
If you have MathType open when you try to insert a new equation in Pages or edit an old one, it works fine. This was broken when Apple released the products, and other than making our customers aware of it, there's really nothing we can do about it. We have documented it in 2 articles on our website:
http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn146.htm
http://www.dessci.com/en/support/MathType/works_with.asp#!target=apple_pages_mac
Bob Mathews
Design Science
I think you can write a plugin with SIMBL [EasySIMBL 10.7+] for non-extendable Cocoa Apps.