<rant> While I have been critical of Microsoft's insistence that everyone do things their way, I have to give them a little credit, as I continue to wrestle with Math in OOo/LO while copy/paste MathML has worked with MSO for some years now.
As I understand it, and if I am missing anything please let me know, there is no way to insert MathML into an OOo/LO document. This was reported as a bug at OOo in 2007, and is listed as a bug http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14252 Thre are work arounds one way and another (see, e.g., http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com/2007/04/xhtml-and-mathml-from-openofficeorg-22.html, http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/08/demo-mathematica-mathml-and-odf.html) but even if I have an mml document there is simply no simple way to insert pre-existing MathML into an OOo/LO document There have been projects such as Jex which try to address such matters but they are far removed from the situation we see with MSO. Of course I can use extensions to insert LaTex, but then the Latex is converted to images, which is arguably counterproductive if I want the MathML or Tex exposed. Of course I can also use extensions to export as Xhtml+Mathml, but how difficult can we actually make this? I suppose one could experiment with adding ASCIIMathML to the document, or a reference to MathJax, but once again that is too much complexity for most folk who simply want to be able to copy and paste equations - transparent nd universal math... </rant> -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted*
