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For people writing scientific papers (like me) the lack of a powerful Formula
Editors in OpenOffice and MS-Word are a real show stoppers. Especially the
handling of formulas is laborous. I am missing the possibility to use
Inline-Formulas which are automatically adapted to style changes.
Example: In LaTeX I can simply write "Einstein said: $E=mc^2$" and I get my
formula inline. In OpenOffice/Word I have to write "Einstein said: " and then to
go through the menues (Insert -> Object -> Formula) to create an Formula Object
and then I put in "E=mc^2" (OpenOffice Formula have already some similarities to
LaTex Formulas). When I now change the text style in OpenOffice/Word from 12pt
to 10pt then I have to go manually through all formulas and change them to 10pt
too. That's no fun. I do not have this problem in LaTeX.
Inline formulars are important since if you use formulas in a paper you have
often sentence like: "Given is $n \in \mathbb{N}$ which is the number of votes.
$V = \{v_1, ... v_n\}$ is the set of all votes. Each $v_i$ with $i \in \{1, ...,
n\}$ is bla bla...". In such cases Formula Handling with OpenOffice is often
really hard. Maybe you could create a shortcut to enter the formula editor and
one to leave it after inserting the formula. So that I can type in my formulas
with out using the mouse.
What I want to conclude is: A powerful and user-friendly Formula Editor in
OpenOffice would be a good argument for using OpenOffice in the scientific
community.
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