MathType is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is Oleafly, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to MathType and ten of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to MathType are LibreOffice - Math, KLatexFormula, TexMaths and TexSlide.
Local-first desktop app for scientific writing in LaTeX, Typst, and Markdown supporting side-by-side editing and PDF preview, offline AI-assisted workflows, versioning via Git, citations, compiling, GitHub sync, and fully open-source, cross-platform performance.
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Math is LibreOffice's formula editor, and can be invoked in your text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings, enabling you to insert perfectly formatted mathematical and scientific formulas.
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Allows creation of images from LaTeX equations with a graphical interface and command-line support, providing drag-and-drop, copy-paste, and save options in various formats for insertion into external documents, presentations, or graphics, available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X.
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TexMaths is an addon designed to provide LaTeX support into LibreOffice. LaTeX equations can be inserted as images (SVG or PNG formats) and the LaTeX code is saved into the image attribute for further editing.
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Math, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is a tool for creating and editing mathematical equations, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor (included in Microsoft Office). The created equations can then be embedded inside other OpenOffice.
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This tool provides a very simplistic gui that renders LaTeX-expressions directly while typing and is able to copy the rendered images to the clipboard or alternatively save them to the desktop while maintaining transparency information.
EqualX Equation Editor - is a powerful interactive tool that lets you create mathematical notation for word processing, web pages, desktop publishing, presentations in TeX, LaTeX
JMathEdit is an equation editor that helps editing complex mathematical expressions with ease. Through the powerful GUI driven interface, very complex mathematical equations, chemical formulas and other scientific and educational equations, which are hard to compose otherwise...
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Texpile is a local, offline editor for LaTeX, Typst, and Markdown. It supports visual editing in the spirit of LyX, source editing with full IntelliSense, git support with a side-by-side diff view, and end-to-end encrypted real-time collaboration.
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