This document sometimes refers to MathType's internal names for values (e.g. Please see the document on MathType MTEF Storage for more information on this subject. How MathType stores an equation description in an OLE equation object, a file, or on the clipboard is not described here. This means that you can't use character strings to represent equations and it makes creating MTEF a little harder with programming languages like Visual Basic. At a minimum, you will get an equation with formatting problems. This means that if you send MathType MTEF with errors, it might crash. We must warn the reader that it is not an easy format to understand and, more importantly, MathType is not at all forgiving in its processing of it. Although MTEF is not the most friendly medium for defining equations, there have been so many requests for this information, we decided to publish it anyway. This document describes the binary equation format used by MathType 4.0 and later (all platforms).
