MathCast - the open source equation editor
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Features


MathCast puts you in the editor’s seat by presenting you with a variety of useful features. MathCast’s most powerful feature, as explained down the page, is Mathcasting, with the XHTML+MathML combination.


Here are some of the classical features of MathCast:
  • Works with popular word processors such as MS Word and OpenOffice.org Writer, allowing you to integrate mathematics into written documents of any type: equation sheets, lab reports, study guides, and so on. You can also use the equations in posters and presentations.
  • Includes sharp rendering for on-screen reading and smooth rendering for high quality printing.
  • Supports output to picture files, including: BMP, PNG (Portable Network Graphics, the web’s free and lossless graphic format), and EMF (Enhanced Metafiles).

Different screens of MathCast



Here are some of the innovative features of MathCast:
  • MathCast operates on MathML Presentation 2.0, today’s leading format for describing mathematics. MathML is based on XML, the web’s most extensible language.
  • XHTML provides numerous advancements from surfing the net to enjoying web services. MathCast's most powerful feature Mathcasting allows you to work on all the <math> tags of an XHTML document, whilst keeping the rest of the markup untouched. This means you can work on all of the mathematics of a webpage together at the same time, in a way that is graphically mathematical, and then you can come back to reedit, whenever you need to.
  • MathCast allows people to work together on mathematical lists over a LAN or across the Internet. Students can work on homework assignments together by quickly exchanging equations. This could also be a useful feature for online teaching.