![]() ![]() “Office” suggests a high-quality level (okay, maybe I’m biased ☺). “Office” alludes to Microsoft Office but needn’t be exclusive. None of the facility’s specifications are proprietary. “Microsoft Math” is a possible name, but other companies might want to ship something similar. But the facility is more than a file format since it has TeX typographical quality, is based on Unicode, has user interfaces (UI) and works with an OpenType math font. ![]() Sometimes people refer to the native math facility as OMML ( Office Math Markup Language), which is the XML file format that encapsulates the in-memory math model and is used in docx, pptx, and xlsx files. In fact, the post Converting Microsoft Equation Editor Objects to OfficeMath needed a name for the native math facility since it describes how you can convert MEE OLE math objects into native math zones. “Microsoft Equation Editor” (MEE) seemed natural, but that’s the name of the Design Science math editor that shipped first in Office on Windows and the Mac in 1992 and was discontinued due to security problems. But ironically the native math facility didn’t have a recognizable name. PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote followed suit in 2010, and Mac Word followed in 2011. Microsoft Word 2007 and RichEdit 6.0 introduced the native Office math facility. ![]()
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