equation tool documentation

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With a bit of digging, one can find a list of symbols for the new equation
tool. I cannot find where they are properly documented. For example,
* what exactly are the arguments to \int ?
* what is the effect of \box ?
* what is \phantom or \vphantom ?
Don't answer these specific questions, the issue is where the documentation
hides in general.
 
Jochen said:
With a bit of digging, one can find a list of symbols for the new
equation tool. I cannot find where they are properly documented. For
example,
* what exactly are the arguments to \int ?
* what is the effect of \box ?
* what is \phantom or \vphantom ?
Don't answer these specific questions, the issue is where the
documentation hides in general.
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As far as I can tell, Microsoft has not yet added these topics to either the
online or the offline help for Office. However, because the Office math
markup language (OMML) is part of the OpenXML standard approved by ECMA,
it's documented elsewhere. Most or all of what you ask is in Unicode Tech
Note 28, http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v2.pdf.

A good place to get links to OMML and OpenXML documentation is Murray
Sargent's blog, particularly
http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2009/01/16/omml-specification-version-2.aspx.

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Many thanks for the note. This situation is atrocious.
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As far as I can tell, Microsoft has not yet added these topics to either the
online or the offline help for Office. However, because the Office math
markup language (OMML) is part of the OpenXML standard approved by ECMA,
it's documented elsewhere. Most or all of what you ask is in Unicode Tech
Note 28, http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn28/UTN28-PlainTextMath-v2.pdf.
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People should not be sent to read this. It is more of a wish list than
documentation. Read the section on equation numbering. Apparently they
intended to add things like this, but it must have disappeared before the
program was released.

A good place to get links to OMML and OpenXML documentation is Murray
Sargent's blog, particularly
http://blogs.msdn.com/murrays/archive/2009/01/16/omml-specification-version-2.aspx.
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No - Do not send people to read this. Any useful content is diffused over
literally several 10^3 pages. To convince oneself of the uselessness, open
the document and do a search for something like "\int" or "\box". You will
find a dozen occurrences, none of which lead to a concise explanation of what
the operator does, what arguments it takes, whether or not it has
consequences for line breaks and so on.

I am still shocked that a product can be released and essentially left
undocumented.
 
Many thanks for the note. This situation is atrocious.
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I am still shocked that a product can be released and essentially left
undocumented.
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You must be new to Microsoft. They've spawned an entire industry of
aftermarket books (the name of the "Missing Manual" series is the best
name) -- and such books generally _don't_ provide the picky details on
what all the specific switches and such in the fields do. (The manual
that came with Word 5 for Mac had _all_ the details of equation fields
in an appendix.)
 
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