Formulas & Structures

CyteEditor Pro supports math formulas and chemical structures. Both render natively in the editor and export to Word with high fidelity. A Pro license is required — see Pricing.

Inserting a formula

Click the Formula button in the toolbar. The dialog has two editing modes:

Visual — type LaTeX directly and watch it render as you type: x_i becomes a subscript the moment you type it.
Source — edit the raw LaTeX string, handy for pasting a formula you already have.

Choose Inline to flow the formula within a text line, or Block to place it on its own centered line. A collapsible Preview shows the rendered result.

Templates

The Templates tab ships ready-made chips grouped by category:

Basic — fraction, square root, n-th root, absolute value, logarithm, matrix, piecewise function
Calculus — integral, sum, product, derivative
Complex numbers — modulus, argument, real & imaginary part

Each template fills the input with a skeleton containing placeholder boxes. Press Tab to jump from one placeholder to the next and type your values. The Symbols panel offers common glyphs (×, ±, ≤, ∞ …) for quick insertion.

LaTeX quick reference

To type	Use
Subscript	`x_i`
Superscript	`x^2`
Sub + superscript	`x_i^2`
Fraction	`\frac{a}{b}`
Square root	`\sqrt{x}`
n-th root	`\sqrt[n]{x}`
Sum	`\sum_{i=1}^{n}`
Integral	`\int_{a}^{b}`
Limit	`\lim_{x \to 0}`
Greek letters	`\alpha` `\beta` `\theta` `\pi`
Operators & relations	`\times` `\cdot` `\pm` `\neq` `\leq` `\geq` `\infty`
Auto-sized delimiters	`\left( \frac{a}{b} \right)`

Chemical formulas (mhchem)

Chemistry uses the mhchem syntax, rendered natively in both modes. Switch to the Chemistry tab for ready-made chips — Molecule, Reaction, Ion, Equilibrium — or type \ce{...} directly:

\ce{H2O}
\ce{SO4^2-}
\ce{2H2 + O2 -> 2H2O}
\ce{N2 + 3H2 <=> 2NH3}

Drawing structures

For full molecular structures, click the Structure button in the toolbar. A visual canvas opens where you draw with bonds, ring templates, and element tools. The finished drawing is inserted into the document as crisp vector graphics and stays editable — double-click it to reopen the canvas.

Exporting to Word

Formulas export as native Word equations (OMML) and remain fully editable in Word. Constructs that Word equations cannot represent fall back to high-resolution images automatically; an export report lists every fallback so you can locate it in the document.
Structures export as vector graphics with a raster fallback — they stay sharp at any zoom in Word 2016+ and WPS.