Equation Editor 2.8 breaks up

I feel following the lead of Microsoft is a cul de sac off the road of progress. They ignored world standards as a business decision to make things look good in their browser and not in others. There have been, literally, millions of man-hours wasted in the world trying to find work-arounds their non-standard decisions.

".....in our new system you're merely looking for examples of what you want; while with MathType you're looking at symbols that illustrate relative arrangement."

The whole object of the exercise is to find "examples of what you want". It is a logical fallacy that using the same symbol to "illustrate relative arrangement" is better than using different symbols for the same purpose.

As a conceptual metaphor |=|/| is not as clear as x=a/b or my course in cognitive linguistics has been wasted and my engineering degree nonplussed. In the 40 some years since my first algebra course I have never once seen an equation represented using anything but letters.

Letters used in place of numbers is what algebra is and always has been since 300 BC. To use empty boxes in place of all letters is obfuscation at it's finest.

All that not withstanding we are going to have letters in our editor, which I applaud, and which I think most people would agree:-)

Regards, Morris