When opening the Equation Editor, an alert box appears with an error message that says the Symbol font installed is not Equation Editor's.

Symptom

When opening the Equation Editor, an alert box appears with the following message:

"The TrueType Symbol font in the font suitcase Symbol inside the Fonts folder is not Equation Editor's. You must install Equation Editor's version of this font if you want to use TrueType. See Chapter 2 of the Equation Editor User Manual for more details." (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1 Equation Editor alert box

Products affected

• AppleWorks 6
• Mac OS 9

Solution

This message can be ignored. The version of Symbol font installed by Mac OS 9 contains all of the elements required for Equation Editor to function normally.