Yes, I am an old LaTeX/Lyx user. In fact, I wish Scribus could import Lyx files. BTW-- I find that the font quality of the resulting pdf is not great, unless I use the EXPERIMENTAL feature of embedding pdf & eps. EK
On 11/04/2010 11:06 AM, John Culleton wrote: > On Monday 01 November 2010 18:51:02 Ehud Kaplan wrote: >> How do I insert Greek letters into text frames? I tried all the >> obvious things, but none worked. >> Also, how about mathematical equations? Do I have to use render >> frames for that? >> Thanks >> >> EK >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> scribus mailing list >> scribus at lists.scribus.info >> http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > For formulas I recommend the TeX exit via Render Frames. That > software has been under development since the 1970's, with math > formulae as a point of emphasis. > > The Greek letters used in mathematics should be accessible > through TeX also in math mode, such as \alpha, \beta, \gamma etc. for > lower case and 11 characters in upper case such as \Gamma \Delta etc. > > See any book on TeX or LaTeX for details of math mode. The Render > Frames exit uses LaTeX but math formulae are common across all the > forms of TeX. Using TeX you can create either a stand-alone formula > or one in-line with other text. -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness /Professor *Director*, Center of Excellence for /Computational & System neuroscience,/ The Friedman Brain Institute, MSSM *Director*, The laboratory of /Visual & Computational Neuroscience/ Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical & Structural Biology The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place New York, NY, 10029 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101104/5072c31f/attachment.htm>
