[gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Vlad Dogaru]

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Hello,

Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself,  but I can't get
AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package
I am missing (searches yielded nothing of interest thus far) or another
piece of software I can use?

Thanks,
Vlad Dogaru

PS: Double-posted on suggestion from gentoo-desktop.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Ryan Sims]

On 1/10/07, Vlad Dogaru <ddvlad@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself,  but I can't get
> AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a package
> I am missing (searches yielded nothing of interest thus far) or another
> piece of software I can use?

I use wxmaxima, which can output latex, and openoffice-math has an ok
formula editor.  I think it also does latex.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Ralf Stephan]

> Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself,  but I can't get
> AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a 
> package

Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output
than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can
convert to Postscript, PDF, bitmap from there and thus include
it in any other doc format.


Regards,
ralf

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Vlad Dogaru]

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On 1/11/07, Ralf Stephan <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> > Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself,  but I can't
> get
> > AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a
> > package
>
> Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output
> than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can
> convert to Postscript, PDF, bitmap from there and thus include
> it in any other doc format.
>
>
> Regards,
> ralf


I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is
that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain
mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Dale]

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Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> On 1/11/07, *Ralf Stephan* <ralf@ark.in-berlin.de
> <mailto:ralf@ark.in-berlin.de>> wrote:
>
>     > Gentoo fits like a glove,even to a newbie such as myself,  but I
>     can't get
>     > AbiWord to display mathematical formulas in my documents. Is there a
>     > package
>
>     Depends on which documents but you don't want any other output
>     than that from LaTeX. This is the true math standard. You can
>     convert to Postscript, PDF, bitmap from there and thus include
>     it in any other doc format.
>
>
>     Regards,
>     ralf
>
>
> I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem
> is that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which
> contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.
>

I think you need Open Office.  emerge openoffice or emerge
openoffice-bin.  The last one is a binary version, no long compile
times.  I don't know your machine but I have a AMD 2500+ with 1GB of
ram.  It takes about 7 1/2 hours for me.  Your mileage may vary.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Ralf Stephan]

> I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is
> that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain
> mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.

Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice,
I would advise you to rewrite in LaTeX. It's a good way to
learn the typesetting and you'll love how it looks. If you
care for your text use LaTeX. Do you think all the scientists
who put their preprints on arXiv.org can be wrong?


Regards,
ralf

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Uwe Thiem]

On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> > I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is
> > that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which
> > contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.
>
> Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice,
> I would advise you to rewrite in LaTeX. It's a good way to
> learn the typesetting and you'll love how it looks. If you
> care for your text use LaTeX. Do you think all the scientists
> who put their preprints on arXiv.org can be wrong?

People, this poor guy has some documents, most probably *not* written by 
himself, he needs to read. Advice to re-write his documents is completely 
besides the point!

Vlad, if you don't mind, please send one of your docs (a small one, not more 
than 100KB, I am with a modem) and I'll tell you whether they can be rendered 
properly in kword or OpenOffice. I'll let you know about the outcome. If you 
send it, please do so off-list.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Vlad Dogaru]

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On 1/11/07, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
>
> On 11 January 2007 14:05, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> > > I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem
> is
> > > that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which
> > > contain mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.
> >
> > Not knowing if it's possible to read that with OpenOffice,
> > I would advise you to rewrite in LaTeX. It's a good way to
> > learn the typesetting and you'll love how it looks. If you
> > care for your text use LaTeX. Do you think all the scientists
> > who put their preprints on arXiv.org can be wrong?
>
> People, this poor guy has some documents, most probably *not* written by
> himself, he needs to read. Advice to re-write his documents is completely
> besides the point!


That is correct, I am not in the position to rewrite the whole work. I
already know some LaTeX and I love it, but I haven't the time or the
credibility to do a rewrite (I am a student and the system is sub-par here
in Romania).

Vlad, if you don't mind, please send one of your docs (a small one, not more
> than 100KB, I am with a modem) and I'll tell you whether they can be
> rendered
> properly in kword or OpenOffice. I'll let you know about the outcome. If
> you
> send it, please do so off-list.
>
> Uwe


Uwe, thanks for the offer, I sent you the file.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Mathematical Formulas

[Ralf Stephan]

> I was being very ambiguous the first time and I apologise. The problem is
> that I have some readily written texts in Windows doc format which contain
> mathematical formulas and I need to be able to read them.

By chance, I found the link to a Word <--> LaTeX converter:

http://www.grindeq.com


Have fun,
ralf

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