OOoLatex or Latex for OpenOffice

[Meson]

Are there cells or tables in your document? Right click them and look for an option to unprotect them.

No, I've been trying to generate my equations in a blank document. I've found that certain symbols generate the error. For example:

% These work
a
adfadf
\pi r^2
1.9891 ~ 10^{30} ~ \mathrm{kg}

% These do not work
a = b
a \gg b
\pi r^2 = 0
1.9891 \times 10^{30} ~ \mathrm{kg}

The first error I get is "Incorrect format. \ Incorrect file format." Followed by "BASIC runtime error. \ Object variable not set."

And it points to this line in the macro.

oDrawDocCtrl = oDrawDoc.getCurrentController()

[Meson]

I think the errors in my previous post might have to do with the fonts... ?

[fari81]

Just a quick note: The font pack from mesh.dl.sourceforge.net is not complete. For example it is missing cmbx10.ttf that is basically the default bold font in equation modes (i.e., \mathbf).

This font and other possibly missing fonts are available directly on the CTAN website:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/font...e1/bakoma/ttf/

You just need to copy them over to the fontfolder (see the first post for the location) and run fc-cashe (as shown in the first post). Restart OO and you're good to go!

[LitusMayol]

Hiya!

First of all, thank you for it!

Second, my problem. I've installed, run OOO and...

Appeared a window with two parts: "Short Cuts" (no worries with it) and "System Directories"

I've to fill two things "LaTex" and "Ghostscript". Whitout this lines it doesn't work.


Any idea of what I've to do?

Thanks!

[Toufik]

For Latex:
/usr/bin/latex

For Ghostscript:
/usr/bin/gs

or whatever the location of these progs on your system.

[hendrikwout]

I'm on Ubuntu Jaunty, I've followed the installation instructions. However I get the following error when I configure the plugin in openoffice:
BASIC-runtime-error.
An exception occured.
Type: com.sun.star.ucb.InteractiveAugmentedIOException
Message: an error occured during file opening.


After this the 'Expand'-buttton in openoffice works fine, the 'Equation'-button doesn't work (it says I have to configure it first).

Anyone has the same, or any ideas to resolve it?

[Sjenitzer]

Hi,

I 'm trying to install OOoLatex on Ubuntu 9.10 64, I followed the cook book from the first post and it works fine except that the latex2emf doesn't work.

I get this error:

latex2emf: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This package is installed, but it looks like latex2emf cannot find it.
Any ideas?

[fari81]

Hi,

I 'm trying to install OOoLatex on Ubuntu 9.10 64, I followed the cook book from the first post and it works fine except that the latex2emf doesn't work.

I get this error:

latex2emf: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This package is installed, but it looks like latex2emf cannot find it.
Any ideas?

I get the same error on my 64 bit machine. It says libstdc++.so.5 not found, though I have it installed.

fari@mani:~$ locate libstdc++.so.5
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.7

I guess since the binaries are compiled on 32 bit machines, they don't run on 64 bit machines. I tried compiling libEMF and latex2emf on my 64 bit machine, but no luck yet.

[smelloscope]

Has anyone else had problems with ooolatex after updating to 9.10? I updated about a month ago, and now the emf mode doesn't work. No matter what equation I enter, it outputs the last equation that I entered before the update. I tried reinstalling the plugin, but no luck. png mode works fine, though.

Has anyone else been having similar problems? Or, any ideas about why it seems to be stuck rendering the same equation?

[gazer22]

Has anyone else had problems with ooolatex after updating to 9.10? I updated about a month ago, and now the emf mode doesn't work. ... png mode works fine, though.

Apparently, you need to install libstdc++5, which was removed from Karmic.

I found a nice set of instructions from this site: http://hsmak.wordpress.com/2009/12/0...n-ubuntu-9-10/

For Ubuntu 9.10 i386

1. Download the i386 Jaunty libstdc++5 package here: http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/poo...untu1_i386.deb
2. Install it:

   sudo dpkg -i libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb

For Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 (I haven't tried this, I'm just copying from the above site...let me know that it works!)

1. Download both the i386 and the amd64 packages:
   
   • http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/poo...untu1_i386.deb
   • http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/poo...ntu1_amd64.deb
2. Install the amd64 package:
   

   sudo dpkg -i libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_amd64.deb

3. Extract the libstdc++5 library from the i386 file:
   

   sudo dpkg-deb -x libstdc++5_3.3.6-17ubuntu1_i386.deb ./tmp
   sudo cp ./tmp/usr/lib/* /usr/lib32/