MathType Tip: Copy equations from Wikipedia and other websites into MathType

You're teaching a lesson tomorrow on the chain rule, and you've found the perfect example on Wikipedia. Now what do you do with it? If you answered "re-type it in MathType so I can use it in PowerPoint", we've got a tip that'll save you loads of time.

With MathType 6, you can copy equations from Wikipedia and use them as you would any MathType equation. We've added a new tip to MathType Tips & Tricks that shows you how to do this. We'd love to know about other sites you've found that MathType works with -- other websites, blogs, wikis, etc. -- and if there are sites you'd like MathType to work with, please let us know by posting a comment here.

Comments

[Maria H. Andersen]

Can you play nice with google to get copy & paste into gmail?

[Paul Libbrecht]

Hello MathTypers,

I really like this copy and paste... I am slightly wondering if there's a chance that licenses byte by doing this... if most of my content is made of such copy-and-paste, am I not somewhat bound to the GFDL? I am fearing so.

I know this is not a place for legal discussion but this sounds to be inherent to the copy-and-paste action... if I had "reproduced" the formulae while reading them it'd be different i think.

paul

[Bob Mathews]

Maria, that's a great idea. Gmail is becoming more popular, and in fact our intention is to not only make MathType compatible with Gmail, but over 90% of the email clients in use today.

[Bob Mathews]

Paul, good thoughts. Adherence to the copyright is of course up to the user. This is, as you suspect, no different for math content than for text, nor for copy & paste than for re-keying by hand. On the other hand though, there is the idea of "fair use" and of using the content in the way the author/publisher intended it to be used. In the case of Wikipedia, their copyright statement is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights. The second paragraph is of particular interest here.