[wellylug] Open Office 1.1.3 Released

[Enkidu]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:56:21 +1300, you wrote:

>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.
>
The first MSWord one was incredibly buggy. There was a downloadable
version that had the same release number (1.2?) but was a big
improvement. I've not used the OOo or WP ones so I've no basis for
comparison.

So far as I know the downloadable one was almost unknown, except to
people who actually contacted MS about the EE.

Anyway, back to Linux, eh?

Cheers,

Cliff