[wellylug] Open Office 1.1.3 Released

[Donald Gordon]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 23:00:35 +1300
jumbophut <jumbophut at gmail.com> wrote:

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

For most symbols (including greek letters), yes.

> 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.

\frac{a^2_b}{x} is the LaTeX equivalent.  The OOo formula language
sounds a lot like the WordPerfect 5.1 formula language, which I remember
as being somewhat verbose and error-prone.  But still miles better than
the fifteen-clicks-to-get-anywhere MS Word equation editor.

donald