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Beamer (Latex)

Posted May 10, 2010 6:15 UTC (Mon) by njs (guest, #40338)
In reply to: Beamer (Latex) by paulj
Parent article: An early look at Glide

I'm not sure what you mean by "latexy". The two things that would be needed are 1) you can enter equations in latex syntax or something similarly convenient, 2) tex-quality rendering. MathML guarantees neither, and I really doubt OO can do either (or anything even in the same ballpark), but I'd be happy to be proved wrong.

I do have a little script for converting a file full of latex equations into PNGs that I use when using Impress. It works okay. But I'm not really fond of Impress for all sorts of other reasons too.


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Beamer (Latex)

Posted May 10, 2010 12:42 UTC (Mon) by Auders (subscriber, #53318) [Link]

I think he's referring to OpenOffice's equation editor, which uses MathML as it's internal representation. It meets both of your criteria: A somewhat LaTeXy syntax and ok looking formulae.

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