Hi all I agree that open office has very good option for typing the math equations and it is quite accessible through keyboard but when we are talking about accessibility, we should think about convert them in to daisy xml or daisy full text full audio books. The export as daisy option is available for open office and it is also supporting math books as well but somehow I am not getting success in exporting math equations in to daisy through this. Does anyone have any experience in this? Thanks Anubhav Mitra
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Topping [mailto:pa...@dessci.com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:43 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: Regarding Mathtype support Sigrid Carrera <sigrid.carrera <at> googlemail.com> writes: > > Dear Prof. Lather, > > Am Wed, 26 May 2010 07:30:51 +0530 > schrieb "Dr. J. S. Lather" <jslather <at> nitkkr.ac.in>: > > > Dear Sir/Madam > > > > What I feel, the openoffice is not getting popular in scientific > > community is because it has entirely different formula inserts. If > > you can get in Openoffice the same kind of support Microsoft Word has > > provided for MathType, then I think that Openoffice will be used > > extensively in Universities worldwide. > > Are you aware, that OpenOffice.org has a formula editor? You can find > it in the menu under "Insert > Object > Formula" (or something similar, > I have a German version of OOo). You can use the editor like the one > from Microsoft and click everything together. Or - and if you have many > formulae to write - you might prefer to enter the code for your > formulae with your keyboard. You can enter then something like > > sum {1 + 2} over {%pi} > > and it will look nice. This second version is much faster and less > tiring then clicking on all the symbols. My husband, who is a > mathematician, prefers the second method. :) > > I hope, this is of help for you. > > Best regards, > > Sigrid Carrera > It is a common misconception that a "point and click: equation editor requires that one always use the mouse. In fact, both MathType, and its junior version that comes with MS Word and other apps, have supported a full set of keyboard shortcuts for years. The current version of MathType allows one to customize the shortcuts and also supports input of TeX/LaTeX languages. This gives you the best of all possible editing experiences. Choose the one that you like best and still get the ease of editing that a direct manipulation interface gives you. Paul --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
