I work for a major, national research laboratory and we've brought Quickr in as a test for a few projects. It's pretty impressive, but the scientists here need the ability to format equations properly, and I can't figure out a reasonably easy way to do that in Quickr.

Right now, we're using a standalone equation editor, grabbing screenshots, and pasting them into postings. But there's got to be a better way.

Please tell me there's an equation editor plug-in for Quickr.

Well, Kimberly, you're in luck. There is an equation editor for Quickr, shown in Figure A.

FIGURE A

You can edit equations in Quickr

It's part of a bigger plug-in, EditLive for Quickr, from Ephox. EditLive adds all sorts of style formatting to Quickr, along with tables, forms, change tracking, and even a thesaurus.

The only gotcha is the solution might be a bit expensive. We don't have pricing information on the product, but EditLive comes in a Professional version and an Enterprise version. The equation editor (and the thesaurus) is only provided in the Enterprise version.

It sounds like you're a pretty big organization, so that probably won't be much of a problem for you, but we'd encourage Ephox to put professional features like equation editing and thesaurus into the Professional version and keep the more enterprise-level features, like change management, in the Enterprise variant.

Joe is a ZATZ associate editor. Prior to this job, he was customer support manager for the FileFlex database engine.