Paranormal Phenomena

요약

1999년 이래 Word2TeX 지원에 관한 이슈 즉, 'paranormal' 들이 축적되어 있습니다. 사용 중에 예상치 못한 현상이 있을 수 있습니다. 이러한 paranormal에 대해 보다 명쾌히 정리하여 드립니다. 이러한 정보는 수시로 업데이트 됩니다.

Chronicles of the Paranormal

Equation mutation

Equation mutation

Here's MAGIC.DOC, a small document which has only one equation in it (initially created by Equation Editor):

If you'll try to convert this document using Word2TeX, it will turn into another equation:

\[
\lambda _{cr} = {\frac{{c}}{{F_{0} l}}}
\]

Here's how this LaTeX equation looks like:

They are similar, but not too much... Maybe Word2TeX tried to simplify equation? Let's proove an alibi for Word2TeX!
In your Microsoft Word open MAGIC.DOC (we tried it on Word2000+MathType 4.0) using File|Open... menu and then File|Save As... with Rich Text Format (*.rtf) saving format option. And now prepare for surprise: load MAGIC.RTF into Word, -- you'll see our magic equation in its original form:

if you'll double-click on this equation -- MathType will perform a miracle shown below

"Believe in miracles but don't depend on them."
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's LIttle Instruction Book