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I'm a software development engineer in Microsoft Office and have been working mostly on the RichEdit editor since 1994. In this blog I focus on mathematics in Office along with some posts on RichEdit and the early Windows days
Users of OfficeMath note that entering math symbols using a keyboard can be hard because they don't...
Date: 06/14/2019
The post Using MathML-Based Speech to Edit Math in Different Math Models discusses the need to...
Date: 04/30/2019
This post discusses how an Assistive Technology program (AT) can use Presentation MathML to create...
Date: 03/28/2019
The post UTF-8 RTF shows how much easier it is to read the rich text format (RTF) with Unicode...
Date: 02/27/2019
Six years have past since the post RichEdit 8 Feature Additions and a lot has happened in between....
Date: 01/18/2019
RichEdit has many character-format properties, most of which are documented for ITextFont2 and...
Date: 12/22/2018
Microsoft products expose their contents for accessibility purposes via a set of interfaces known as...
Date: 11/16/2018
The post OfficeMath describes the history, model, file format, typography and math font of the...
Date: 10/17/2018
Microsoft Word 2007 and RichEdit 6.0 introduced the native Office math facility. PowerPoint, Excel,...
Date: 09/30/2018
As discussed in the post Editing equations created using the Microsoft Equation Editor, the...
Date: 08/31/2018
The Microsoft OfficeMath object model (OMML) dedicates explicit arguments for integrands, summands...
Date: 07/31/2018
This post compares the Design Science Equation Editor and MathType features with the Microsoft...
Date: 05/14/2018
OneNote Universal has a nifty built-in math facility that lets you solve and graph equations. Enter...
Date: 04/29/2018
The post Math Accents discusses how accent usage in math zones differs from that in ordinary text,...
Date: 03/31/2018
The post RichEdit 8.0 Image Support describes how RichEdit supports popular image formats, such as...
Date: 02/21/2018
Word’s first math editing facility was the EQ field. Some description of the EQ field and comparison...
Date: 01/23/2018
This post describes three ways RichEdit may clip text along with possible solutions. Clipping can...
Date: 12/28/2017
Many posts of this blog are about the native Office math facility introduced in Microsoft Word in...
Date: 11/30/2017
Greek letters often appear as variables in mathematical text. This post describes their support in...
Date: 10/31/2017
This post augments the post Inserting and Getting Math Text in RichEdit by documenting the RichEdit...
Date: 09/28/2017
In offering a LaTeX math input mode, we’ve run into the problem that a user might type some LaTeX...
Date: 08/31/2017
For a while now it’s been possible to switch Word’s math input mode from UnicodeMath to LaTeX. We...
Date: 07/30/2017
For sighted users, Microsoft Office applications like Word, PowerPoint and OneNote have user...
Date: 06/21/2017
Mathematical text in modern technical documents appears in math zones. This is true for LaTeX,...
Date: 04/18/2017
The posts Microsoft Office Math Speech and Speaking of math… describe two kinds of math-speech...
Date: 03/19/2017
Microsoft Office math-aware applications can now speak math in over 18 different languages! Try it...
Date: 02/27/2017
In addition to handling 2D arrangements such as fractions, root, subscripts and superscripts, math...
Date: 01/31/2017
People often ask questions about the nature of the text insertion point (IP), the blinking vertical...
Date: 12/28/2016
A new version of Unicode Technical Note #28, UnicodeMath, a Nearly Plain-Text Encoding of...
Date: 11/30/2016
You might think that there’s just one good way to speak a math expression, at least in each natural...
Date: 10/30/2016
In writing the post Nemeth Braille—the first math linear format, I became increasingly aware that...
Date: 09/07/2016
Both Unicode and Nemeth braille include sets of math alphanumerics. Section 2.2 of Unicode Technical...
Date: 08/26/2016
The 6-dot Nemeth braille encoding was created by Abraham Nemeth for mathematical and scientific...
Date: 07/31/2016
This post discusses how a combination of the Office in-memory built-up format (“Professional” in...
Date: 06/30/2016
A text editor has to provide ways of reading and modifying text. For external clients, the RichEdit...
Date: 05/31/2016
As discussed in the post RichEdit Font Binding, in a text string when a character appears that isn’t...
Date: 03/28/2016
This post describes some seemingly anomalous behavior that can happen when you type characters that...
Date: 01/04/2016
The post RichEdit Font Binding outlines how RichEdit chooses fonts when you paste or otherwise enter...
Date: 12/07/2015
Starting with the Office 2007 RichEdit, it has been possible to enter math using the keyboard and to...
Date: 11/22/2015
For years, many applications have used the locale ID (LCID) to identify the language and locale for...
Date: 10/19/2015
The popularity of emoji symbols has encouraged a variety of technological innovations, notably fonts...
Date: 09/24/2015
In applications that have lots of independent text instances such as spreadsheets and complex...
Date: 08/30/2015
With on-screen keyboards used commonly on phones, tablets and even on laptops, one might wonder how...
Date: 07/06/2015
Typical documents use black for the text color and white for the background. This gives the highest...
Date: 06/08/2015
Word 2016 and PowerPoint 2016 join OneNote 2010 (and later) in offering a way to display equation...
Date: 05/14/2015