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Tips from 2007
Question by Joachim
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:07:14 +0200 (CEST)
From: Joachim Meyer <jmeyer@mail.desy.de>
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I started to use Open Office for presentations.
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I work on LINUX PC.
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*Questions:*
- How to make mathematical formulas in an efficient way ?
- How to incorporate eps figures ?
- Is there a good (short) manual describing essentials of Open Office for presentations ?
Answers
Dirk
From: Dirk Hoffmann <hoffmann@mail.desy.de>
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http://documentation.openoffice.org
can help:
- -> "User Manuals"
-> first link "Getting Started Guide", PDF 5.8MB, 260 p.
p.128-152: Chapter 9, Getting Started with Impress ... short enough?
- -> "How Tos"
-> first link "Formula Command Reference"
The "OOo formula language" is quite similar to TeX.
A command that you will need to learn very early though is "size 50"
(or alike), when using formulas in presentations.
Jan
From: Jan Olsson <olsson@mail.desy.de>
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Concerning pictures, I use "ps2gif pic1.eps pic1.gif"
Ytsen
From: Ytsen de Boer <BLISSCOMPUTERS@yrdeboer.nl>
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Hi, have a look here:
Arnd
From: Arnd Specka <specka@poly.in2p3.fr>
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Back in the days when I used OpenOffice I used to transform eps
to png
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which gives a nicer result than gif
(good for line art) and jpg
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(good for photographs). The tool should be "ps2png"
or something like
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that.
Martin ( ... ooolatex! )
From: Martin Goettlich <martin.goettlich@desy.de>
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for mathematical formulas I recommend to use ooolatex. This allows you to
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use latex commands to write formulas within Open Office. You may download
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it from here:
"LaTeX formulas in OpenOffice" (Gerhard Brandt, 2005)
This is a copy from
https://www-h1.desy.de/icgi-hypernews/get/H1/Bugs/1297.html
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Forum: H1 General - Bugs, Problems, Frustrations, Fixes
Date: 2005, Apr 26
From: Gerhard Brandt <gbrandt@mail.desy.de>
Subject:
LaTeX formulas in OpenOffice
Hi,
A main disadvantage of using OpenOffice vs. LaTeX for write-ups or presentation was the ugliness of the built-in OpenOffice formulas. There is now a fix for that in the form of a macro that allows direct inclusion of LaTeX formulas in OpenOffice. It calls latex including the formulas as
png or
eps into the document.
I tested this, its great and it works at DESY. Your machine has to see /user and ~/bin is in your PATH.
Then:
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cp /user/gbrandt/epstool-3.07/bin/epstool ~/bin
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cp /user/gbrandt/OOoLatex-2.2-rc5/bin/OOoLatex ~/bin
- launch OpenOffice, new file
- open the "marco organizer" from the menu Tools>Macro>Organizer
- select the tab "libraries"
- There is a button "append" which allows you to select
/user/gbrandt/OOoLatex-2.2-rc5/macro/script.xlb
- Assign a key (for example
"Crtl-M"
) to the macro "OOoLatex/OOoLatexEquation/main" from the menu Tools>Macro>Assign>Keyboard.
Now, to insert a latex formula type
Ctrl-M,
the dialog should be self-explanatory. To edit the formula again, select its picture and type
Ctrl-M
again.
the original site for the macro is:
Have Fun,
Gerhard