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Murray Sargent: Math in Office

I'm a software development engineer in Microsoft Office and have been working mostly on the RichEdit editor since 1994. In this blog I focus on mathematics in Office along with some posts on RichEdit and the early Windows days

Plain Text Math in Bidirectional Contexts

In plain text, bidirectional text (text including some Arabic or Hebrew) is generally displayed...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 02/28/2011

Check out Live Writer

This is a test to see how I can use Live Writer to make blog posts more nicely. In particular, it’s...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 01/01/2011

MathML To-Do List

In my MathML 3.0 post, I noted that several things were postponed for future consideration. The...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 12/31/2010

Mac Word 2011 and Math

Office for Mac 2011 has many cool additions. The best of them all (well you know my bias!) is that...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 11/22/2010

Linear Format Notations for Mathematics

I have been having a great discussion with Christian Lerch about computer-oriented mathematical...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 08/30/2010

Article/Video on Murray Sargent and Math in Office

The article Professor's Laser Focus Gets Math into Office tells some of the story behind the Math in...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 06/17/2010

Bidi Paragraph with Parenthesized Text

The previous post described four tailorings of the Unicode Bidi Algorithm (UBA) in situations where...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 05/06/2010

Tailoring the Unicode Bidi Algorithm

The Unicode Bidi Algorithm is a very useful, general, and standard approach for displaying text that...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 04/06/2010

Linear Format Version 3

Unicode Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of Mathematics, Version 3 (Unicode Technical Note #28) is now...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 03/13/2010

Math Ribbon Entry of Subscripts and Superscripts

As noted in the previous post Keyboard Entry of Subscripts and Superscripts, the preferred way to...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 03/03/2010

Keyboard Entry of Subscripts and Superscripts

The Send-a-Smile and Send-a-Frown feedback from Office beta users is very useful for finding out...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 02/08/2010

Negated Operators

Sometimes you need to enter a negated operator like ≠. If you’re a C/C++ programmer, you might think...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 02/05/2010

Special Capabilities of a Math Font

A fairly common inquiry is how a program can use and access the many special glyph variants of a...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 01/11/2010

High Fonts and Math Fonts

Math fonts differ from other fonts not only in their extensive coverage of math operators, symbols,...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 12/01/2009

Directionality in Math Zones

In most places, mathematical text is written “left to right” (LTR). For example, in the...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 11/12/2009

Equation Numbering Prototype

When writing the Math in Office 2010 post back in July, I could just imagine the disappointment...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 10/14/2009

This post is a companion to Automatic RichEdit Hyperlinks. As stated in that post, RichEdit has two...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 09/24/2009

RichEdit Versions Update to 7.0

The original RichEdit Versions post covered RichEdit versions 1.0 through 6.0, since 6.0 was the...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 09/05/2009

RichEdit has two kinds of hyperlinks, automatic hyperlinks (autoURLs) and friendly name hyperlinks....

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 08/31/2009

Entering Matrices

The Office math ribbon has a few examples of matrices, but you might like to be able to enter a lot...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 08/18/2009

Math in Office 2010

Imagine typing alt+= in PowerPoint, OneNote, Excel, and, of course, Word and Outlook to enter a math...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 07/13/2009

Entering Math via the Linear Format

The previous blog post is on the cool math handwriting recognition shipped with Windows 7. The post...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 05/06/2009

Math Handwriting Recognition

Starting with Windows 7, Windows includes a cool applet called the Math Input Panel. This applet...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 05/06/2009

Empty Math Zone Place Holders

You type Alt+= or click the Insert ribbon Equation button, and presto! You’ve inserted an empty math...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 04/27/2009

Restricted Math Zone Character Formatting

A number of character formatting properties are treated differently in a math zone than they are in...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 03/04/2009

RichEdit Paragraph Indents

RichEdit paragraph indents are based on the original RichEdit 1.0 definitions. These differ somewhat...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 02/16/2009

OMML Specification, Version 2

The OMML (Office math markup language) specification has been improved in response to the great...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 01/16/2009

The Math Paragraph

The earlier post Breaking Equations into Multiple Lines describes equation line breaking and...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 12/19/2008

Paragraphs and Paragraph Formatting

What paragraphs are and how they are formatted are questions that continually come up both inside...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 11/21/2008

More on Math Context Menus

An earlier post describes math context menus (right click somewhere in a math zone) for changing the...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 11/04/2008

Default Document Math Properties

A number of math display properties have document defaults. These are the ones used if you...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 10/27/2008

RichEdit’s Nested Table Facility

One subject that seems to come up every other month or so is how RichEdit tables work. So I might as...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 09/15/2008

The Invisibles

No this isn’t about some kind of science fiction, this is about five Unicode characters that...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 08/25/2008

Improved MathML support in Word 2007

Two very interesting developments are happening that will improve Word 2007’s MathML support. The...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 07/28/2008

Subscript and Superscript Bases

For proper math typography, it’s important to know the base of a subscript or superscript...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 06/29/2008

Extracting OMML from Word 2003 Math Zone Images

The science and technology publishing industry uses Word 2003 in processing a significant portion of...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 05/13/2008

Updated RTF Specification

An updated RTF Specification is available for downloading here. I already blogged about the new...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 04/20/2008

Math Context Menus

One handy way to edit mathematical text is to use math context menus. These menus are displayed when...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 03/30/2008

A neat opportunity...

Okay, the Math In Office blog isn't about advertising. But just in case you're someone who really...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 03/07/2008

Word EQ Field and East Asian Formatting

This post discusses aspects of Word’s first math editing and display facility: the EQ field. This...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 02/19/2008

Hidden Math Features in Word 2007

Alex Ioffe emailed me Hi Murray, I realize you probably get this often by why can't someone...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 02/17/2008

Weird F020-F0FF characters in Word’s RTF

People have been inquiring about Word RTF’s occasional use of the Unicode Private Use Area...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 01/23/2008

Rick Shoemaker, quantum magician and microcomputer whiz

This post summarizes what I said at the retirement ceremony for my long time collaborator and good...

Author: MurrayS3 Date: 01/19/2008

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