On 28/01/11 09:21, Michael Meeks wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 02:52 +0300, Alexander wrote: >> I want to suggest to add in LO support LaTeX as formulas generator. >> Instead or jointly of Math. > .. >> Currently, LO inherited old non-wide used StarOffice syntax for formulas. > > So - it is clear that the LaTeX syntax is well know; however it is also > clear that we cannot import all of TeX into LibreOffice. Could we make > this a problem of data input, and perhaps do some coercion under the > hood into our MathML-like representation ? > > Anyhow - the math engine lives in starmath/ do have a poke in there, > and see what can be done - even a proof of concept to convert the most > simple LaTeX formulae to starmath form (and back) would be fun to see. > Dunno quite how it works, but take a look at the lilypond integration with OOo.
Lilypond always USED to use TeX as its back-end, and there's some way you can put lilypond code into OOo that then calls lilypond (and TeX) to generate a graphic that gets pulled back into OOo. It's used for producing complicated scores. Cheers, Wol _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
