Quote:Originally posted by Nevyn:I've bought iLife 06, which comes with the trial version of iWork 06. And significant spreadsheet-like abilities in Pages would certainly count as a major update to iWork as a whole.We'll have to see, but the little snippet of it in the Pages preview seems quite promising. If I could do this work in Pages, I'm not sure that I'd need a seperate spreadsheet app. But one of the things I'm most curious about is the spreadsheet like features of the tables.A lot of the work I do in Excel is trying to make a spreadsheet look presentable as a printed document while retaining the time saving features of using equations in a spreadsheet. I'm hopefully going to pick it up tonight as I've been anxiously awaiting the mail merge function. Given the relative paucity of advancement in one year, it's quite possible they spend the rest of their time as a short bus driver.

Quote:Originally posted by The Limey:It does appear that after the initial release Pages now only has one person working on code for it. But nobody should be doing the pdftex -> cut in Preview -> paste thing anymore. Maybe better (for me) because it works with TeX.The important missing bit is how to do inline equations properly. For displayed equations in Keynote it's almost as good as having a dedicated equation editor. I want something that I can manipulate in the program environment that I am using, be it Keynote or Pages. It is not even as easy as it is using Appleworks. But it is simply not as easy as it should be.

I was waiting for this reply, since it has been consistently given every time the lack of an eqn. Quote:Originally posted by Mr Slippery:quote: (a).(b).(c).(d). I hope that keynote 3 will not break this functionality. Works excellent and they update live if you typeset the equation in LaTeXIt. With keynote 2 (don't know about keynote3 yet) you can use the linkback plugin ( see here) together with LaTeXit ( over here) to create double-clickable LaTeX equations in keynote. Quote:Originally posted by oxonian:WNKnisely, even if the new Keynote has a built in equation editor, I imagine I will continue to make my physics lecture slides the same way as I do now, i.e.(a) have TexShop installed so as to be able to typeset latex to a pdf easily,(b) thus make a document containing all the equations I need,(c) open the PDF in Preview,(d) use the EXCELLENT feature of Preview where you can put a box around anything in the page, copy, and then paste directly into Keynote.The resulting equations are of course proper scalable fonts so that the presentation looks good at any resolution.

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