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As we saw in a previous post, L^AT_EXiT can be used to place professionally typesetted equations in Apple’s Keynote. In fact, L^AT_EXiT has an even better integration with Apple’s Pages word processing application. Continue reading for a demonstration of what you can do with L^AT_EXiT and Pages…

Although L^AT_EX can be used to produce excellent documents (it’s not just used to produce equations!), some people may still feel daunted by producing a full document using it. However, with the use of L^AEXiT (note this also requires L^AT_EX itself to be installed), equations can be produced and placed into a Pages document, thus allowing people to benefit from well typesetted equations, but not be forced to learn how to produce a full L^AT_EX document.While writing a document in Pages, you can simply write out an equation, select it, and then press command and period/full stop ( + .) and the equation becomes L^AT_EX-ified as illustrated in our images! (This is invoking the L^AT_EXiT service).

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These equations are small PDF images and so you can use Pages to apply shadows and opacity to them if you wish. If you change you mind about an equation you can press the standard undo button in Pages and go back the L^AT_EX source code.

L^AT_EX can produce much more than these simple equations, so you are very unlikely to find yourself in a situation where you want to represent mathematics that L^AT_EX can’t handle. This makes Pages very attractive for producing quick professional looking documents.

Update: To perfectly align your L^AT_EXiT equation with your text, see this quick fix.