[K12OSN] Writing Math Equations

[Mark Gumprecht]

Doesn't staroffice8/OO2 math handle that?
Mark

Gentgeen wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:41:42 -0800
>Huck <dhuckaby at paasda.org> wrote:
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>>Latex
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>>David Trask wrote:
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>>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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>Latex is ideal, but probably not exactly "user friendly". Depending on
>your user of course.
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>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"
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>Now if you are writing a book, the benefits of Latex would out weigh the
>time it takes to learn.
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>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.
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>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
gumprechtm at msad3.org

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