PowerMath for Indesign with USB Dongal

Current Implementation: PowerMath is currently implemented as an InDesign plug-in for the Macintosh Platform. The program is copy-protected by an electronic hardware key ("Dongle") for the USB port on the Macintosh computer. Functionality: PowerMath was written as a standalone program which can interact with other programs. It uses its own text editor and typesetting program, and allows for an extremely powerful and flexible system data setup on a per document basis. These system data setups can be created by any knowledgeable user. They exist as files which can be passed to other users of the program. A freeware version of the program allows anyone to view and print documents which contain PowerMath equations. The equations themselves are keyboarded and subsequently edited in a fully interactive, WYSIWYG environment. Mathematical structures, character sizing, spacing and positioning, and pi character access from a user-definable set of pi fonts are fully automated for the keyboarder in the system data setups. Additionally, ASCII files containing normal text as well as coding for interactive PowerMath equations can be keyboarded on other platforms for importation to the InDesign document. Any PowerMath equation can be exported back to the ASCII format.