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May 10, 2024
Question

Math font that works with mathmagic

  • May 10, 2024
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Hello.

I'm new to InDesign and i try to use to write a scientific book that has a lot of equations and math formulas. 

 

I see a book that was written with InDesign i asked the author about which plugins he used to wrote it , he responded saying that he used mathmagic.

 

I purchased mathmagic add it to InDesign but my equations look very ugly, i tried to change font but tha mathmagic keeps saying that he didn't find the postscript for the font .... i can only use tha mathmagic fonts and all if them produce a very ugly equations .

 

But in the book i mentioned earlier the equations look very good.

 

My question is which font they are using based on the screenshot i linked to my post?.  and what is the best practice to use InDesign with mathmagic?.

 

Thanks in advance 

2 replies

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
May 12, 2024

@default0bjmdekuce14

 

MathType is much better - but only available on Windows.

 

Known Participant
May 24, 2024

mathtype does not work in indesign. It works from outside. After equations in Indesign there is an alignment issue with the baseline.

 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
May 24, 2024
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After equations in Indesign there is an alignment issue with the baseline.

 

By @uniq1

 

The same - or worse - is with MathMagic. 

 

MathType at least converts equations from WORD much better than MM. 

 

Peter Kahrel
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2024

You should get in touch with the people who sell mathmagic, they'll tell you how to configure fonts in mathmagic.