Equations panel overview

Know the equations panel and its various settings in FrameMaker.

The Equations panel contains the commands to create and change equations. It also contains the symbols, operators, functions, and other math elements you insert in equations. To display the panel, click the Equations button Equation button at the upper-right in the document window.

Figure 1. Equations panel
Equations panel in FrameMaker

A. The Equations drop-down list appears on every page. B. This part of the panel changes from page to page. C. The names of the pages appear here, with the current page highlighted.

The Equations panel contains nine pages of math elements and commands. To display a page, click its name at the top of the panel.

Symbols

Greek characters, atomic symbols, diacritical marks, and strings.

Operators

Roots, powers, signs, subscripts, superscripts, and logic symbols.

Large

Sums, products, integrals, intersections, and unions.

Delimiters

Parentheses, brackets, curly brackets, and substitution.

Relations

Equal, less than, greater than, similar to, subset of, superset of, and proportional to.

Calculus

Integrals, derivatives, partial derivatives, gradients, and limits.

Matrices

Matrices and matrix commands.

Functions

Trigonometric, hyperbolic, and logarithmic functions; commands for evaluating expressions; and commands for creating and applying rules.

Positioning

Controls to adjust the position of an expression and the spacing around it, commands to specify alignment, and commands to set and clear manual line breaks.