John Jason Jordan wrote: > That is extremely interesting. My formulas are simple, but doing them > in OOo is problematic due to bugs. (The font bugs that cause many > characters not to appear if bold or italic are selected.) > > However, I know zero about TeX, and I don't have a couple months of my > life to spend learning it. Would it be possible just to learn how to do > the formulas I need. I'm guessing that it wouldn't take too long to > learn the syntax I'd need. >
There should be some easy to find resources re: LaTeX commands. ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/doc/amsmath/short-math-guide.pdf for example. Some starters: Math commands need to begin and end with '$' for what is called in-line use of these commands. Examples: $\frac{x}{y}$ will make a fraction, with x as the numerator, y as the denominator. $x^y$ x to the y power $x_y$ x subscript y $\frac{x^2 + 2y}{x + y}$ $\sqrt{\frac{x +1}{y}}$ square root of x + 1 divided by y note: $\times$ is times symbol, not $*$ $\div$ is division symbol $\deg$ is said to be degree symbol, but I can't get that to work, so have used $^\circ$ instead The reference above shows how complex and flexible this can be (and once you get the hang of it, not so hard). Greg
