William Stein wrote:
> 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?
To get someone started, here are the rules I used above, with a bit of
extra grouping (the {} brace pairs) to make sure things work out all right.
\frac{a}{b} -> {{a} over {b}}
\sin -> sin
\cos -> cos
\cdot -> cdot
also, I saw that:
\left( -> left (
\right) -> right )
etc.
Whoever does it might click through the openoffice equation toolbar
which gives the openoffice code for the various symbols.
-Jason
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