Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

Jon Hamkins wrote:
> 1. Export to LaTeX*. Support for LaTeX in OOo was limited to the 
> OOoLaTeX extension, which allows one to interface to a TeX engine by 
> typing an equation in LaTeX-style, calling the TeX engine, and inserting 
> a PNG of the typeset result into the OOo document.

We used to have built-in LaTeX export from within OOo Writer, with 
decent results; then the component (which, if I recall correctly, was 
named Writer2LaTeX or similar) was moved back to a stand-alone project 
and removed from OOo. I never tested this on math formulas, I just 
tested it on basic Writer documents.

> then LibO could become like "LyX," a GUI for LaTeX, but better.

While we do have a formula editor and basic tools, it would be rather 
hard to build a LaTeX export that can work "the LaTeX way", much like 
the HTML export suffers from unavoidable artificial conversions.

Regards,
  Andrea Pescetti.


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