So I put one person on working on the book and the other on the tables, I took the task of the tables, as I felt this was the hardest part. All the tables contained different sizes, columns and rows. I had to do this for a book last year that every second page contained a table. One to set the book and the other to go through the book and find all the equations and set them. I would put this down to a two-person operation. I would retype all the equations right into InDesign. I had to sleep on this one, and now that I have I agree with what blass has said. So what do you, the reader, use? Any clever ways to export as TeX and convert to something InDesign can import? What about methods for extracting Word’s equations and turning them into editable objects in InDesign? InMath is a very impressive and it’s awesome that it can typeset all that stuff right on the page (using paragraph styles, character styles, etc.), but (and I could be wrong here) I don’t think it imports equations from Word or any other system.
(Random note: They will be presenting two half-day seminars about typesetting math in InDesign at the Miami InDesign Conference in late February of this year.) The most popular plug-in for this is InMath, from ITIP. The second way to do it is to use an InDesign plug-in and do the math right on your page. (I didn’t do the layout of that book that was done by Maura Fadden Rosenthal. The most annoying part of that whole project was finding out that the font changed in the book and realizing there was no way I was going to stay sane if I had to re-export all those equations. This is how we did the equations in my book, The Joy of Pi (using Design Science’s MathType to create the graphics, if I recall). This is tedious and the management is tough, but it tends to work. More after the jump! Continue reading below↓įree and Premium members see fewer ads! Sign up and log-in today.įirst, you can save each equation as a separate image/picture and import it (using File > Place, like any other graphic) in InDesign. In general, there tend to be two good ways to do math in InDesign, and both have their pros and cons. But I have to say that I wouldn’t trust it for final high-quality printing. I don’t do this, so I don’t know what kind of embedded object appears. I’m going to throw out a few ideas, and then open the floor to see how other people have solved this problem.įirst of all, the fact that Word’s equations import into InDesign at all amazes and terrifies me. In fact, typesetting math often seems just as hard as doing the equations themselves. It would make life so much easier! But alas, I don’t think there are any easy solutions here. Everyone who typesets math wants there to be a seamless integration between Microsoft Word and InDesign. Some of them do mathematical equations using Word’s Equation Editor, and when I import their document into InDesign some of the characters do not come over properly.
The geologists here produce their drafts in Word, and then I import the text into InDesign to do the final formatting.
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