IO Software Announces Equations! for Windows

IO Software Announces Equations! for Windows

Shipley, UK – 12 May 2006 – IO Software announced today Equations! for Windows, a new and innovative software allowing users to write complex scientific expressions using visual editing or LaTeX input. With full support for OLE, Equations can be used together with a vast number of programs supporting also this technology, like Microsoft Office, Open Office, Ability Office, Corel WordPerfect Office, to create powerful scientific documents.

“We are very pleased to release Equations!, not only it has the largest scientific symbol support we know of, as by accepting visual and LaTeX editing we think we are giving users the best of both worlds. From the advanced user to the inexperienced one Equations! will be a perfect tool to create scientific documents, emails, and presentations.” said Luis Dias director of IO Software, ”The user experience is very important to us, we put a great deal of work and thought in order to assure that Equations! interface was simple, practical, and intuitive.“

Over 700 symbols supported

Equations! supports 692 Latex tags, producing over 700 unique symbols, with new symbols being added regularly. This makes Equations! possibly the most complete equation editor currently available.

Latex support with real time editing

Equations! has full LaTeX syntax support, allowing the input of 692 (and growing) tags. Latex is processed in real time, which means whatever users write in LaTeX can automatically be seen in visual editing area. And the opposite is also true: if a user edits an equation visually he will see the Latex code automatically updated. In Equations! Latex and visual editing are closely interlinked and by combining both users have an unprecedented power and ease in writing scientific equations. No longer LaTeX users have to remember hundreds of tags as they can easily access them from the combo boxes. At the same time the visual editor users can quickly change their equations using the simplicity and speed of LaTeX without needing to know any LaTeX at all.

See documents created with Equations! anywhere

Equations! uses OLE technology to work with programs like MS Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Open Office, Ability Office, Corel WordPerfect Office. This means that unlike some products users do not need to have Equations! installed in a computer in order to see any documents created with it. Users can send documents created with Equations! to friends and colleagues, you can take them to meetings, without worrying about if you will be able to see them or not. They can even send emails directly containing equations if their email composition program supports OLE (like for example, Microsoft Outlook).

Simple and Customizable UI

Usability is as much a concern for us as it is innovation. This way Equations! has combo boxes with both graphic representation of symbols and their latex code to faster and better identification. We created also a Speed Bar to quickly access the most commonly used symbols and put all features in plain sight, well organized, so that no confusion can be made. And case all this is not enough we also give users the choice of changing the symbols organization and labeling both in combos and speed bar to better suit their needs.

Pricing and availability

IO Software Equations can be purchased at www.iosoftware.co.uk/shop.asp for £25/$45/€37. There is a 20% discount up to 20 May as a release promotion.