Re: [libreoffice-users] Displaying MathType equations in Writer

As far as I can tell, Writer converts the MathType formulae into OLE
Objects and apart from changing their attributes they cannot be edited.

Graham


On 15 August 2014 22:50, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> I thought the Math (maybe called "Formula" now?) module/app could import
> various different formats.  MathML 1.01 (mml) might be one MS Office uses?
>
> I'm not sure how much that helps if there are tons of formulae
> interspersed with normal text :(
>
> Maybe the Published Guides might help?
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Math_Guide
>
> Good luck!  Hopefully someone else here might have a better answer!
> Please let us know how this goes
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
> On 15 August 2014 17:02, Graham Luffrum <grhmlffrm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Someone has sent me to translate an MS doc containing equations written
> > with MathType. On opening it in Writer the equations often get garbled
> > due,
> > I guess, to the lack of the appropriate fonts required to display them.
> > (If relevant I'm using LibreOffice 4.3.0.2 under Linux Mint 17.)  Is it
> > possible to get the fonts?
> >
> > As a second question, is there any way in which one can edit MathType
> > equations in Writer?  I guess the answer is no.
> >
> > As someone who frequently is asked to translate mathematical papers (from
> > Slovak to English) which are written in Word (MS Office rules in this neck
> > of the woods even in academia) I usually have to resort to getting my
> > other
> > laptop out, which has Windows on it as LO simply cannot cope reliably with
> > equations produced in Word.  I guess it is almost certainly asking for far
> > too much for compatibility here.  Before somebody asks why academics are
> > writing mathematical papers in Word and not in Latex, I guess it's because
> > MS provide the universities with cheap versions of Office and so lock them
> > in, but then I could be wrong.
> >
> > Graham
> >
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