Re: [libreoffice-users] what is the relationship between latex and libreoffice?

Il 27/10/2011 08:55, v_2e@ukr.net ha scritto:
>    Hello!
>
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:11:44 +0200
> Marcello Romani<mromani@ottotecnica.com>  wrote:
>
> > Il 27/10/2011 04:06, soumalya ray ha scritto:
> > > few days back,there was a mail about an extension (probably math)
> > > for libreoffice to integrate latex with it.
> > > what is latex????????
> > > i googled a bit and apparently its an editor mainly for scientific
> > > writing.i am using ubuntu lucid.so downloaded texlive packages from
> > > the synaptic. but i could not understand how to use it?
> > > could anybody give me some idea about it?how to use it with
> > > libreoffice? thanks in advance,
> >
> > LaTeX documents are similar to programs, and must be compiled (sort
> > of) to produce typesetted text. If you want to give it a quick try,
> > install LyX. Don't know about integration with LibO. At least you can
> > write formulas with LyX, screenshot them and insert them as images
> > into a LibO document...
>    The equation editor in LibreOffice (Math) uses a syntax very similar
> to LaTeX. The question is: why only "similar"? Why not using LaTeX
> syntax?
>    Anyway, it is a common problem to convert LaTeX documents to LO or
> MSO formats, which in theory should be quite easy because of the LO
> Math and LaTeX syntax similarity, but it actually isn't.
>    I believe, the possible solutions are:
> - to make LO Math understand the LaTeX constructions;
> - to make an utility which would convert LaTeX into [very similar] LO
> Math syntax;
> - to use the LaTeX engine installed on the system to "compile" the
> LaTeX syntax in order to insert some complex formula into LO document.
>
> Otherwise it is necessary to re-type all the formulae if you want to
> convert between LO Math<-->  LaTeX.
>
> Or maybe I'm wrong and somebody knows another solution? I'd be glad to
> hear that! :)
>
>    Regards,
>      Vladimir
>
> -----
>   <v_2e@ukr.net>

I'm, trying this right now:

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/ooolatex

If one knows the latex syntax for equations, it's easy to use and the 
results are quite goot. The only limitation is that latex equations are 
rendered as images inside the document (and in the resulting pdf).

--
Marcello Romani

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