On Dec 14, 2007 9:28 AM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Jason wrote:
>
> > What about writing an openoffice function that converts an expression to
> > openoffice equation format? For example, the above output is:
> >
> > {cos(1)} over {sin(1)} - {(sin(1)^2 + cos(1)^2) cdot (x-1)} over
> > {sin(1)^2} + {(cos(1) cdot sin(1)^2 + cos(1)^3) cdot ((x-1)^2)} over
> > {sin(1)^3}
> >
> > (just paste that into the equation editor of openoffice and the equation
> > pops up in your document).
> >
> > The syntax is looser than latex, but I think it's probably doable and
> > probably just a modification of the latex function. While it might be
> > nice to insist on everyone downloading a latex macro and learning a bit
> > of latex, having an openoffice export function makes Sage that much more
> > accessible.
>
> I am in the process of writing educational materials which show high
> school students how to use SAGE with OpenOffice to create technical
> documents and an OpenOffice export function would be very helpful for
> this. Does anyone have a feel for how difficult it would be to write
> a function like this?
What needs to be done is to write in Python a latex --> open office format
converter, probably with a bunch of regexp's, etc. How hard is that?
William
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