LaTeX Equation Editor description

Apple's Keynote presentation software makes it easy to create great looking presentations with professional themes, transitions, and charts and tables. If you need mathematics, though, you're out of luck. For some reason, Apple's designers failed to include anything more than the most basic tools for creating mathematical expressions, leaving mathematicians and scientists with little incentive to switch to Keynote. The LaTeX Equation Editor provides an elegant graphical interface to LaTeX, a powerful typesetting engine for mathematics, enabling you to quickly generate professional-looking mathematics for inclusion in your slides. All equations are produced as single-page PDF files, so they can be smoothly resized and rotated like any other graphic object in Keynote. All of Keynote's graphic operations can be applied to PDF files just as easily as bitmapped files. This includes rotation, constructing mirror-images, and applying shadows. Since the PDF files produced by the LaTeX equation editor are transparent except for the actual text, shadows applied to PDF equations only have the mathematical expressions casting shadows.