Support for mathematical formulas?

#1 (**permalink**) 11-19-2008, 06:15 PM

Anyone use mathematical formulas in help files? Does RoboHelp provide a way or support a way of adding these into into HTML Help topics? How do you folks do this?

#2 (**permalink**) 11-19-2008, 08:04 PM

We tried a number of different options, and money is not an issue.

We could never get HTML-based equations to work right. It should work, but it
doesn't.

We then tried Active-X-based equations, with no luck.

Finally, we just went back to (PNG) image-based equations that we create in an
equation editor. This editor allows us to save the original equations to a
(XML) file, and to export them to PNG images.

Good luck with your search, and let us know if you can find anything.

#3 (**permalink**) 11-20-2008, 09:34 AM

HI Jared. We ended up adopting a similar approach to Pet3689 for our statistical fit application which ended up with lots of image files that we could import into our RH topics.

#4 (**permalink**) 11-21-2008, 04:16 PM

If it is any help (or just more discouraging news), we also went with images
and used Word's equation editor add-on to create them. So it is sounding like
many have tried without success to write equations in HTML.

John

#5 (**permalink**) 11-21-2008, 04:24 PM

How about we all add an item to the http://www.macromedia.com/support/email/wishform/. It sounds like we have a pressure group out there :wink;

#6 (**permalink**) 12-06-2008, 02:45 AM

We've had the exact same problem and have resorted to PNG files created form equation editor in Word. It's a real PITA that I'd like to get rid off.

Has anyone looked at the new MathType 6.5?

PageRank Tools

IWebTools

Newest Additions