Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
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Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#2It's quite a sad story, when people working in Microsoft used to be the experts of all experts on Windows, and at the present moment people from outside know Windows better... It seems like the only people left in there are maintainers...
Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#3It's quite a sad story, when people working in Microsoft used to be the experts of all experts on Windows, and at the present moment people from outside know Windows better... It seems like the only people left in there are maintainers...
I guess it's prompt writers
Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#4I just wished there could be something easy to replace this equation editor, it's really smooth for people that are not really proficient with LaTeX
Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#5It's quite a sad story, when people working in Microsoft used to be the experts of all experts on Windows, and at the present moment people from outside know Windows better... It seems like the only people left in there are maintainers...
Microsoft last patched the tool by manually patching the binary executable. It seems like they don't have the source code for the tool anymore. There was also a long string of vulnerabilities in the tool, which seems to have stopped being updated at source level somewhere around 2000 based on the copyright in the screenshot.
MS should write an alternative to the tool (and I believe they have done so at some point in modern versions of Office), but removing this piece of abandonware was the right call.
Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#6It's quite a sad story, when people working in Microsoft used to be the experts of all experts on Windows, and at the present moment people from outside know Windows better... It seems like the only people left in there are maintainers...
Microsoft last patched the tool by manually patching the binary executable. It seems like they don't have the source code for the tool anymore. There was also a long string of vulnerabilities in the tool, which seems to have stopped being updated at source level somewhere around 2000 based on the copyright in the screenshot. MS should write an alternative to the tool (and I believe they have done so at some point in…
> It seems like they don't have the source code for the tool anymore
I think they never owned the source code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_shared_tools#...:
“Equation Editor was a formula editor developed by Design Science that allowed users to construct math and science equations in a WYSIWYG environment, and was included in Microsoft Office and several other commercial applications. It was a simplified version of Design Science's MathType”
> MS should write an alternative to the tool (and I believe they have done so at some point in modern versions of Office)
Indeed, and the first version they did that in cannot be called modern anymore. From that same page:
“Beginning with Office 2007, Equation Editor is no longer the default method of creating equations, and is kept for compatibility with old documents only. Instead, a reengineered equation editor is included”
Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#7I just wished there could be something easy to replace this equation editor, it's really smooth for people that are not really proficient with LaTeX
How about Eric Lengyel's equation editor: https://radicalpie.com
Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#8I just wished there could be something easy to replace this equation editor, it's really smooth for people that are not really proficient with LaTeX
How about Eric Lengyel's equation editor: https://radicalpie.com
There are also many suitable web versions such as https://editor.codecogs.com/
You can then download the image. The only thing I think they should add is the equation string as a comment to the images so you can upload and continue editing without a proprietary file format.
Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about Eric Lengyel's equation editor: https://radicalpie.com
There are also many suitable web versions such as https://editor.codecogs.com/ You can then download the image. The only thing I think they should add is the equation string as a comment to the images so you can upload and continue editing without a proprietary file format.
> the equation string as a comment to the images
Yes some diagramming tools do this when exporting to PNG, this is a great feature
Re: Micropatching Brings the Abandoned Equation Editor Back to Life (2018)
#10I just wished there could be something easy to replace this equation editor, it's really smooth for people that are not really proficient with LaTeX
In PowerPoint, I am a happy user of IguanaTex [1].
There are also some other PlugIns like TeXsword. But I have not tested them. And newer MS Office versions seem to support Latex macros directly. [2]
[1] https://github.com/Jonathan-LeRoux/IguanaTex
[2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/linear-format-equ...