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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Feb 2 11:31:40 +0000 2007 ------- It is hard to follow this issue as it has drifted into several directions. Let me try to summarize: We now have a LATEX export filter We don't have LATEX import and let me say: we will never have one as the document concepts of both applications are too different to achieve a good importing quality and the effort would be incredibly high. We also don't have LATEX as formula editor - but that's something that looks doable to me if some preconditions were fulfilled. OOo has an interface that allows to plugin external files and activate external editors to edit them, just like OLE on Windows. To make use of this interface the external application must be able to provide a rendered image of the edited document that OOo can display or print. For quality reasons this should be a "vector style" graphics but unfortunately we still don't have SVG importing capabilities so ATM we have to use a pixel image. Using high resolutions and good compression should at least enable us to provide sufficient quality for a start. If anybody is interested to work with us to create a wrapper component that bridges to an installed LATEX application implementing the mentioned embedding interface we would be glad to support that. The wrapper component can be implemented in either C++ oder Java. Besides that I'm wondering if anything else is left in this issue. If not we could change the summary to "Embed LATEX as an external formula editor". Opinions, anyone? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
