[wellylug] Open Office 1.1.3 Released

[jumbophut]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:20:33 +1300, Donald Gordon wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 20:39:35 +1300
> jumbophut wrote:
> 
> > The OOo equation editor is very impressive and, in my opinion, easier
> > to use than the Word monstrosity (too mouse-intensive).  There is an
> > MS Equation importer, although I've never used it.
> 
> What's it like compared to LaTeX equation syntax?
> 

I'm not very familiar with LaTeX, but as I recall it involves many backslashes?

Anyway, OOo's formula editor uses very much plain English:

e.g. 'a ^ 2 sub b over x'  gives an 'a' with a superscript '2' and a
subscript 'b', all over 'x'.  There is no LaTeX import/export built
into my version, although it will do MathML and StarMath.

(Having extolled its virtues, I have to admit that I'm having a wee
problem with the formula editor's use of symbol fonts at the moment. 
It worked fine on Windows at work (eek)).

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')