# MathCast Help

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#### About

MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, databases, etc. They could be rendered graphically to the screen, to picture files, or to MathML - today's leading standard language for describing mathematics.
MathCast is a free and open source application. Feel free to use it to help your studies, to add mathematics to your website, etc.
The typing of new equations in MathCast is done through the Rapid Mathline, an input line characterized by its ease of use and power.
MathCast is also an Equation List Manager, enabling you to edit many equations simultaneously.

##### Here are some of the classical features of MathCast:

- Works with popular word processors such as MS Word and OpenOffice.org Writer, allowing you to integrate mathematics into written documents of any type: equation sheets, lab reports, study guides, and so on. Photo editing is also supported, allowing you to make posters and presentations.
- Includes sharp rendering for on-screen reading and smooth rendering for high quality printing.
- Supports output to picture files, including: BMP, PNG (Portable Network Graphics, the web's free and lossless graphic format), and EMF (Enhanced Metafiles).

##### Here are some of the innovative features of MathCast:

- Operates on MathML Presentation 2.0, today's leading format for describing mathematics. MathML is based on XML, the web's most extensible language.
- XHTML provides numerous advancements from surfing the net to enjoying web services. MathCast's most powerful feature Mathcasting allows you to work on all the <math> tags of an XHTML document, whilst keeping the rest of the markup untouched. This means you can work on all of the mathematics of a webpage together at the same time, in a way that is graphically mathematical, and then you can come back to reedit whenever you need to.
- MathCast allows people to work together on mathematical lists over a LAN or across the Internet. Students can work on homework assignments together by quickly exchanging equations. This could also be a useful feature for online teaching.

For the latest on MathCast, check out its homepage, MathCast.sf.net.