among my favorite equations....

2009-04-27 Thread Gary Kline
if anybody had OOO math 3.0.1 installed, they can see one of my favoriite equations. :-) -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.41a release

Re: Equations

2007-10-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
? Continuing the OT, it is also interesting that the desktop publishing applications that I am aware of (an that is certainly incomplete) do not handle equations very well either. Scribus didn't the last time I looked; Frame might but that is not really an option. ConTeXt includes several pre

Re: Equations

2007-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-05 15:03, Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 23:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am always a bit surprised that TeX was released in 78 (before my birth!) and---despite its algorithms are published---its output quality remains unmatched [1] by common

Re: Equations

2007-10-06 Thread Frank Jahnke
that the desktop publishing applications that I am aware of (an that is certainly incomplete) do not handle equations very well either. Scribus didn't the last time I looked; Frame might but that is not really an option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Equations

2007-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
Frank Jahnke wrote: I figured this was the case, and it makes a difference. This is OT, but do you have a link that describe what font families are available? I assume the Postscript base set is easy. But how about the others? There is an entire fat book devoted to that: Fonts Encodings by

Re: Equations

2007-10-06 Thread Eduardo Morras
and easy app (no tex,troff,...) that can do equations as the first message said. Can i think that there is no such app? Thanks. -- This document represent my ideas. They are mine

Re: Equations

2007-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
Eduardo Morras said: Excuse me for the intromision, but i'm reading this thread, waiting for a tiny and easy app (no tex,troff,...) that can do equations as the first message said. Can i think that there is no such app? There may be some under Windows, but i don't know. Under Unix machines

Equations (WAS: good replacement for open office)

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Jahnke
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 well enough. For documents that I create for read-only

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
, we stand on each other's feet. You are so right about that. I saw equations in the subject line and jumped a little to quickly. ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

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

Re: Equations

2007-10-05 Thread michaelgrunewald
Frank Jahnke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 well enough

Re: Equations

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Jahnke
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 23:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems there is no reason to be optimistic about the existence of an ``office-like'' program that deals smartly with equations. The input method from MathType (which is what WP uses) actually is quite good. The formatting

Re: Equations

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007, Frank Jahnke wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 23:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems there is no reason to be optimistic about the existence of an ``office-like'' program that deals smartly with equations. The input method from MathType (which is what WP uses

Re: Equations

2007-10-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:37:11PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: There's a big difference between sophisticated typesetting programs such as TeX and groff, and word processors. TeX and ?roff were designed to do major, professional quality, publishing projects by people who understood the