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

thanks for the explanation.its really informative.
thanks

On 28 October 2011 14:16, e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27/10/2011, soumalya ray <drsoumalya@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> A quick example. Create a bibliography file 'mybibliography.bib'
> containing the following text:
>
> @article{referencename,
>        author="firstname lastname",
>        journal="journal title",
>        month="month of year",
>        note="",
>        number="1",
>        pages="1--10",
>        title="journal article title",
>        volume="2",
>        year="3456"
>        }
>
> Create a tex file 'myfirstlatexfile.tex' containing the following:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
>
> \geometry{verbose,tmargin=2cm,bmargin=1.5cm,lmargin=2.5cm,rmargin=1.5cm,headheight=1cm,headsep=1cm,footskip=1cm}
> \usepackage{amsmath}
> \begin{document}
>        \author{~}
>        \title{a latex file}
>        \date{~}
>        \maketitle
>        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do
> eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
>        \begin{math}
>                \sum_{i=1}^{10} a_i
>        \end{math}
>        Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris
> nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute
> \cite{referencename) irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit
> esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat
> cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim
> id est laborum.
>        \section{title of this section}
>                \begin{itemize}
>                        \item an item in a bullet list
>                        \item another item
>                \end{itemize}
>        \bibliographystyle{plainnat}
>        \bibliography{/path/to/your/bibliography/mybibliography.bib}
> \end{document}
>
> > could anybody give me some idea about it?how to use it with libreoffice?
>
> In your command terminal run the commands:
>
> latex myfirstlatexfile.tex
> bibtex mybibliography.bib
> latex myfirstlatexfile.tex
> latex myfirstlatexfile.tex
>
> View the file with the command:
>
> xdvi myfirstlatexfile.dvi
>
> As an example (there are other possibilities depending on your LaTeX
> installation), convert to pdf:
>
> dvipdf myfirstlatexfile.dvi
>
> View file in pdf reader (evince or xpdf):
>
> evince myfirstlatexfile.pdf
>
> The example should demonstrate the power of LaTeX; beautiful pdf
> output, perfect rendering of maths, automatic formatting of text,
> excellent organisation of references.
>
> If you want a structured document containing references, maths and
> consistent formatting, use LaTeX. If you want to write a quick
> document without the need for maths or references, use a word
> processor such as LO. There is no _requirement_ to use LaTeX with LO.
> Personally, there does not seem to be a good reason to try and
> incorporate LaTeX code into LO, unless LO wants to become a user
> interface to LaTeX, like LyX.
>
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