Howto: Eqe: LaTeX equation editor

[parktownprawn]

eqe: Linux LaTeX equation editor (http://rlehy.free.fr/)

Eqe allows you to drag and drop latex formated equations into Open Office apps and many other apps. Its a clone of the MacOS X LaTeX equation editor. A windows equivalent would be Texpoint.

The screenshot bellow shows an equation being dragged into an OpenOffice Impress presentation:

http://rlehy.free.fr/screenshot_eqe.png

To Install:

First you must have latex installed

sudo apt-get install tetex-bin tetex-base

then install the dependancies and get and install the package

sudo apt-get install libgtk2-perl libtemplate-perl imagemagick tetex-extra libfile-slurp-perl
wget http://rlehy.free.fr/eqe_1.2.0-1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i eqe_1.2.0-1_all.deb
rm eqe_1.2.0-1_all.deb

[engla]

Oh so wonderful! How can this be so hard to find? I wish I had found this before when I was making a physics presentation in impress.. I resorted to some web page that did the same job, but that was painful.

This is a great application, and it still works (I tried it in edgy).

Simpler instructions:

Download the ready-made package from the website: eqe_1.3.0-2_all.deb (http://rlehy.free.fr/eqe_1.3.0-2_all.deb) is the current one.
Save it and double-click it (works in Ubuntu 6.06 or later)
The package and its dependencies will be installed automatically if you follow the instructions.



(make sure universe is enabled (http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/#enabling_extra_repositories))

[andiii]

That looks really neat, but I'm with texlive instead of tetex, so I can't install it..

edit: found http://redsymbol.net/software/l2p/dist/l2p-doc.html and this works

[andresv]

That looks really neat, but I'm with texlive instead of tetex, so I can't install it..

edit: found http://redsymbol.net/software/l2p/dist/l2p-doc.html and this works

Thanks for pointing out l2p! :) I was a user of eqe, but after I switched to texlive I was missing a program like that. l2p is perhaps less neat than eqe, but for the time being it is a good option.

[parktownprawn]

That looks really neat, but I'm with texlive instead of tetex, so I can't install it..

edit: found http://redsymbol.net/software/l2p/dist/l2p-doc.html and this works

You can use the modified deb i've attached or you can hack the eqe deb yourself to get it to work with texlive:

Extract the filesystem tree to a directory "packagename.x.x.x":
$ dpkg-deb -x packagename.x.x.x.deb packagename.x.x.x

Extract the control file information:
$ dpkg-deb -e packagename.x.x.x.deb packagename.x.x.x/DEBIAN


$ cd packagename.x.x.x/DEBIAN

Edit the file called: control

change the Depends line to:

Depends: coreutils, libgtk2-perl (>= 1.042-1), imagemagick, libfile-slurp-perl, libtemplate-perl, tetex-base | texlive-base, tetex-extra | texlive-latex-extra

$ cd ../../

Rebuild the deb package:
$ dpkg-deb -b packagename.x.x.x packagename.x.x.x.deb