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April 24, 2008

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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