Format of equals sign

[LarryBaxter]

I'm writing a journal article and importing lots of MathCAD equations into Word (.  There's three ways to show a MathCAD equation, colon, control-equals or equals.  Only the equals key gives me a publishable equals sign (colon gives a colon-equals, shift-colon a bold equals)., but I can't use the equals key to show variables on both sides without one of the variables turning red ("This variable is undefined"), or if defined, other problems.

Any ideas?

...Larry

[Werner_E · Accepted solution]

There is a good reason for having different "equal" symbols for different kind of 'equals' (assignment, evaluation, comparison).

But it looks like you are using real Mathcad and not Prime and so you have luck.

You can change the way an assignment/definition is displayed to a normal equal sign by using the right click menu

The same goes with the comparison/Boolean equal

You can make these settings on a region per region basis or global for the whole worksheet via Tools - Worksheet Options - Display:

[LarryBaxter]

Works!

Thanks very much...

...Larry

[SPaulis]

There is a way... but you may not like it.

1. Unless you can specifically find the Mathcad Unimath font, use a similar looking OTF font
2. upload it to an online font editor
3. There is an actual "colon equal" character (hex 2254).  Find it, delete it and duplicate the paths for an equal sign in it's place (or just delete the colon circles and shift the equal lines over).  You need to do it to all the types (i.e. bold, italic, bolt-italic, etc.)
4. Change the font family name so that it is unique.  Like just add "no colon" to the family name
5. Download the changes to your computer and install the font

At least this way, it kinda becomes built-in to your Mathcad and your PDF's will look fine.  But since you are writing an article, the publication may not like your font.  

Alternately, you can simply edit your PDF to search and replace the colon-equal with an equal sign.  Or the publisher might be able to do it for you--they don't like the colon-equal as much as everyone else.  It doesn't have good "feng shui".

I agree, there is no reason to use a colon-equal when you are writing an article, book or paper.  You are not judged on how well you used Mathcad, but on the math itself.

Good luck

[edit]  Ah... my bad.  I was thinking Mathcad Prime.