Greek characters

Great addin!

I have a couple questions/comments:

1. Is there a way to do greek characters?

2. Is there a way to change the font, font size and colors?

3. It would be nice to have a toggle or a separate button to create the Latex text for the equation.

4. As another reviewer mentioned, it would also be nice to be able to do a formula with the numeric values of the cells. Perhaps the user could indicate the numeric formatting to be used (notation and number of decimal places) and the rendering macro would use that to format the values. It would be best to have a separate button for this so the user could choose either cell/name references or numeric values.

Great minds clearly think alike! We've a whole a new addin that we've developed. We should release the beta, but we're about to redevelop the whole thing in C# to solve some snags we've hit (currently its written in VBA).

• Greek characters with the current version should work with just by adding a backslash in front of the greek name of the character, i.e. \alpha
• Font size will be fixed in the new edition
• Color is tricky - since we already do some colouring, but we'll consider it
• Toggle for LaTeX text is a nice idea, I think its probably easiest to route the user directly to our Equation editor.
• Numeric values is also solved in the new version - in fact we're done a whole lot more.

Thanks for the prompt response. Prior to seeing your reply, I did find out how to do the greek characters using a backslash prefix. However one thing I noted on this was that uppercase greek characters don't seem to work. I tried doing Α but that didn't seem to do the trick. If the first letter or entire string is capitalized, nothing at all seems to show up.

I also noticed that you can do subscripts using the underscore character but I could only do these if there was a single subscript, i.e., F_y works but F_ys does not.

You mentioned using "our Equation Editor". Is this a separate install? Does this make the equations editable? That would be nice. I was thinking that LaTeX formatted equations might be an intermediate step between interpreting the Excel equations and displaying them graphically which is why I recommended that. Perhaps this is not the case.

Does the new version support different fonts as well as font size?

I'm looking forward to your next release. Thanks for the good work.