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daveyu

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What equation editor do you use on macOS? MathType vs alternatives?
I’ve been using MathType for years, but on macOS it feels a bit outdated lately.
I recently found MathCapture, which seems to integrate smoothly with Word and PowerPoint.
Curious what everyone else is using and why.
 
macOS comes with an app called Grapher. It's a powerful graphical calculator, but you can also use it go create formulas. They will copy and paste to other apps with formatting intact.
 
macOS comes with an app called Grapher. It's a powerful graphical calculator, but you can also use it go create formulas. They will copy and paste to other apps with formatting intact.
It seems that it does not support matrices and radicals
 
It seems that it does not support matrices and radicals

It does, but as I have not used the other tools I cannot comment on ease of use.

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