(March 17, 2022 at 9:23 am)Angrboda Wrote:(March 17, 2022 at 1:36 am)Astreja Wrote: Learned how to use the equation editor in Microsoft Word. (I'm taking a math course online and want to make my homework look nice.)
I worked in the document department of a biomedical firm in the late 80s. We had Wordstar. We composed the formulas used in manufacturing the product with a combination of ascii characters, sub and superscripting, and backspacing over previous marks. You don't know how good you have it.
I typed my mathematics dissertation on a manual typewriter, exchanging font balls whenever I needed a math symbol.
Almost all professional mathematics is written in LaTeX, which is a typesetting program written in the 1970's. it has a number of front and back ends, but it is still very far from WYSIWYG.
It does make things look nice, though.