A prince, really? How can I help you, mounthood?

I loved MathType. My love affair ended yesterday. I wanted to do a simple function in bracket notation: T(x) = (3n+2)/2 if n is odd, and n/2 if n is even. (Yes, I'm one of those Collatz people)

Now on my WINDOWS version of Mathtype, this sort of thing Just Works. But now I have a mac, and on my MAC version, the bracket is all in pieces and awful. This is with the real MathType, not "equation editor." It looks bad on the screen, when I save as .pdf, and I even tried saving as .html and it still is all broken up. I wound up creating it in MAPLE and doing a screen capture, and then cropping the screen cap.

Boo to MathType; at least the Mac version.

(BTW: The LaTeX code for that function:

$T\left( x\right) =\left\{
\begin{array}{cc}
\frac{3n+1}{2} & n\text{ odd} \\
\frac{n}{2} & n\text{ even}%
\end{array}%
\right. $

Even if you have never seen LaTeX, I'll bet you can figure out what is going on. The syntax is not that bad.)

My 12" PowerBook travels in style, or more precisely, in a Marware SportFolio Sleeve, which goes in my Land's End Square Rigger Classic Attache. No complaints on either; the Marware case fits like a glove and the Land's End attache is ridiculously durable. (As is its warranty; this one's been in use for about four years, and its predecessor made it to five before one of the clips for the shoulder strap broke and they replaced it for free.) Bit spendy, but you've got a Mac, so you clearly don't mind laying down a few more ducats for quality. :-)