[K12OSN] Writing Math Equations

[Paul VanGundy]

All,

For Macs try NeoOffice. In short, it's OpenOffice.org for Macs. Here's the
link http://www.neooffice.org/ 

-Paul

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Paul VanGundy
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-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Bob McCaa
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:44 PM
To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Writing Math Equations

Can you run Open Office.org2 on OsX?

If so what about OO2's Math?


On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 13:14 -0500, Gentgeen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:41:42 -0800
> Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote:
> 
> > Latex
> > 
> > 
> > David Trask wrote:
> > > 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
> > > dtrask at vcsvikings.org
> > > (207)923-3100
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 
> 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 (http://www.w3.org/Math/), 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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