Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you seem to use the equation feature quite intensively, maybe you have any clue on making the equation editor perform better. Sorry I can't really be of much help with OO.o equations. What I do personally is a kludge, but it works

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:00PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've given up on trying to find a BSD or Linux program that is good enough for this purpose -- none really are. So I just use Word in a VM and am done with it. Have you

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On 10/4/07, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 12:34:00PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On 10/5/07, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've given up on trying to find a BSD or Linux program that is good enough for this purpose -- none really are. So I just

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Word rather than try to teach them troff (or TeX). While they are all i'm not top-flight scientist but i was able to learn latex... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 20:13 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Word rather than try to teach them troff (or TeX). While they are all i'm not top-flight scientist but i was able to learn latex... That may be true, but trust me, the faculty with whom I work just would not do it. No way, no how,

Re: Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 12:34 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: Have you tried LyX? I'm aware of it, and will indeed try it one of these days, but that is not the issue. I'm fine with troff -- I've used it for so many years that I can get it to jump through hoops. Time has passed it by, though, so