{"id":108,"date":"2005-08-19T18:53:03","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T10:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2014-12-06T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T01:37:06","slug":"equation-writer-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/equation-writer-at-last-108","title":{"rendered":"Equation Writer - at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Update (Jun 2013):<\/b> See my reviews of related products, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/microsoft-math-30-review-713\">MS Math 3.0<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/microsoft-mathematics-4-0-now-for-0-6443\">MS Math 4.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally a math handwriting recognition software!<\/p>\n<p>For years I have been wondering why it is that you can input Chinese characters using a digital pen and it converts it to 'nice' electronic characters, but you can't do the same with math?<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft's Equation Writer, which comes with the Education Pack on a Tablet PC, does exactly what I have been wanting. This has a lot of potential in e-learning.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2012\/04\/equationwriter.gif\" width=\"420\" height=\"319\" alt=\"MS equation writer\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now, to buy a tablet PC to drive it...<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update (Jun 2013): See my reviews of related products, MS Math 3.0 and MS Math 4.0. Finally a math handwriting recognition software! For years I have been wondering why it is that you can input Chinese characters using a digital pen and it converts it to 'nice' electronic characters, but you can't do the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}