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Doesn't staroffice8/OO2 math handle that?<br>
Mark<br>
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Huck <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dhuckaby@paasda.org"><dhuckaby@paasda.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Latex
David Trask wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I have a teacher who wants to be able to write math equations that
set up properly...just like in a textbook...in other words fractions
show up as one number over another number instead of using forward
or back slashes. Anyone know of a way to accomplish this? Font,
program...web site? She's using Mac OS X, but we're open to
anything.
David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dtrask@vcsvikings.org">dtrask@vcsvikings.org</a>
(207)923-3100
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Latex is ideal, but probably not exactly "user friendly". Depending on
your user of course.
What you end up using is really based on what you need as a final
product. If your talking about just righting up the occasional test,
then OpenOffice and the Equation editor will do just fine. (I
understand that AbiWord also has plug-in, but not familiar with it) In
OpenOffice, just go to "Insert - Object - Formula"
Now if you are writing a book, the benefits of Latex would out weigh the
time it takes to learn.
If you want something for a website, well that might be a bit harder.
You can do a kind of "Latex to PostScript to GIF file" kind of
conversion, or some other crazy thing to get the math stuff into a
graphics file. There is also MathML (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.w3.org/Math/">http://www.w3.org/Math/</a>), but I am
not at all familiar with it, and not all browser's can handle it by
default.
Being primarily a math teacher, I have looked into this 100 times over
the years. I tend towards using OpenOffice most of the time. But due
to necessary, I have found myself slowly learning Latex.
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Mark Gumprecht
Data Systems Specialist
MSAD3
Unity, ME
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gumprechtm@msad3.org">gumprechtm@msad3.org</a>
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