On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:40:04 -0400 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> dijo:
> John Jason Jordan wrote: > > That is extremely interesting. My formulas are simple, but doing them > > in OOo is problematic due to bugs. (The font bugs that cause many > > characters not to appear if bold or italic are selected.) > > > > However, I know zero about TeX, and I don't have a couple months of my > > life to spend learning it. Would it be possible just to learn how to do > > the formulas I need. I'm guessing that it wouldn't take too long to > > learn the syntax I'd need. > > > > There should be some easy to find resources re: LaTeX commands. > ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/doc/amsmath/short-math-guide.pdf > for example. I looked at the PDF, but it doesn't have enough examples. My reluctance to take the time to learn it is because I only ever need one type of formula. It's a lot of work to learn the whole Latex thing just to do one kind of formula. This is all I need: [ sometext ] [ moretext ] [ moreagain ] Where the brackets are stretched to enclose the text items. And sometimes I might need to nest two or more such brackets inside braces. I never ever need real math formulas because I am not writing math stuff, so all the options are a waste of time to learn. If I knew I was going to live to 200 years old it might be fun to take the time to learn it. :) It only took me a couple hours to figure out how to do it in OOo. I was hoping the Scribus TEX thing would be as simple, but it requires too much learning of stuff I don't need. It's overkill for me.
