Talkback:133/luana.html

[ In reference to "Plotting the spirograph equations with 'gnuplot'" in LG#133 ]

Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:35:01 -0400

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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:03:36 +0200
From: Arnold Mashava <[email protected]>
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Subject: Talkback:133/luana.html

Cheers for the Gnu plot article. I am an OpenSUSE LINUX user and still doing my MSc.Eng at the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa. What's the Open Source equivalent of MathType and Office 2007, Open Office.org still has a long way to go until they catch up with MS Office 2007.

Arnold

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Karl-Heinz Herrmann [kh1 at khherrmann.de]

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:18:48 +0200

Hi,

> Africa. What's the Open Source equivalent of MathType and Office
> 2007, Open Office.org still has a long way to go until they catch up
> with MS Office 2007.

since you already ruled out Openoffice in preference to MS Office and want good math typesetting if I understand you right there is of course LaTeX.

If you must have mouse clickable menus for editing, have a look at frontends like lyx.

K.-H.

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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:05:57 +0100

On 11/04/2008, Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
>  > Africa. What's the Open Source equivalent of MathType and Office
>  > 2007, Open Office.org still has a long way to go until they catch up
>  > with MS Office 2007.
>
>
> since you already ruled out Openoffice in preference to MS Office and
>  want good math typesetting if I understand you right there is of course
>  LaTeX.
>

Of course, there's also OOoLatex (http://ooolatex.sourceforge.net/), which allows you to use LaTeX equations within OpenOffice.

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