Michael Moser wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the best news group for questions re. Word's
built-in equation editor. If you know a better forum: please advise!

If one has long textual subscripts like (in absence of any layout
features in ASCII text let uppercase here be characters in math-style
and lower-case be characters Text-style):

X = Ylong_subscript_here + Zanother_long_ name_here

For some strange reason equation editor tears subscripts, that contain
more than 10 characters appart and inserts some long white space after
each 10th character, thus yielding very odd looking formulas that look
like:

X = Ylong_subsc ript_here + Zanother_ot her _name_h ere
(Hope I could make myself clear here...)

In fact, the textual fragments don't even need to be in sub- or
superscript. Some simple tests suggest that any text that is longer than
10 chars is split up into chunks of 10 chars maximum.

Any idea, why this is so and how one can prevent texts from being split
like this?

Michael

How about using an equation field? They're generally not hard to write
unless you have things like nested matrices to describe. Mathematicians
and their printers have ensured that 'normal' mathematical text is, in
general, easy to write and compose.