Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Academia

[Andrea Pescetti]

Jon Hamkins wrote:
1. Export to LaTeX*. Support for LaTeX in OOo was limited to the 
OOoLaTeX extension, which allows one to interface to a TeX engine by 
typing an equation in LaTeX-style, calling the TeX engine, and inserting 
a PNG of the typeset result into the OOo document.


We used to have built-in LaTeX export from within OOo Writer, with 
decent results; then the component (which, if I recall correctly, was 
named Writer2LaTeX or similar) was moved back to a stand-alone project 
and removed from OOo. I never tested this on math formulas, I just 
tested it on basic Writer documents.



then LibO could become like LyX, a GUI for LaTeX, but better.


While we do have a formula editor and basic tools, it would be rather 
hard to build a LaTeX export that can work the LaTeX way, much like 
the HTML export suffers from unavoidable artificial conversions.


Regards,
  Andrea Pescetti.


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Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibO in Education (JK-High School and NOT post grad. university/college)

[Marc Paré]

Le 2010-10-19 19:18, Benjamin Horst a écrit :


Promoting LibreOffice as a symbiotic tool to use along with Google Docs would 
probably be a successful approach. It provides value-add in terms of a larger 
featureset and support for much more complex documents, while also eliminating 
the risk of losing all productivity if you're forced offline for whatever 
reason. And the extension Graham suggests is the glue that lets them work 
together.

-Ben

Benjamin Horst
bho...@mac.com
646-464-2314 (Eastern)
www.solidoffice.com




Agreed and good idea! We will have to take a closer look at this when 
establishing our rationale for the educational advantages of the suite.


Marc Paré
Waterloo, Canada
Marketing Team Member


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