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Legendary_Bibo
June 7th, 2010, 04:21 AM
I'm used to Office 2007's point and click method, but OO has a point and click/text form and if you learn the key words you can soar through them. It took about 10 minutes to learn all the keywords and stuff like that, but I just made a help sheet with about 15 equations that would've taken me over two hours in just half an hour just by typing.
juancarlospaco
June 7th, 2010, 04:58 AM
ok
LeifAndersen
June 7th, 2010, 05:12 AM
Sorry, I like Matlab's and Octave's syntax 10x better than OOo's formulas, unfortunately, neither of them (out of the box anyway), have pretty print. Still though, in comparison, OOo has some really funky syntax. (IMO anyway).
Kdar
June 7th, 2010, 05:14 AM
I used it for one of my projects in one class, very useful and easy.
NovaAesa
June 7th, 2010, 12:13 PM
Can't say I have ever used OO formulas, however I swear by LaTeX.
Kdar
June 7th, 2010, 01:53 PM
Where can I learn more about Latex? Any good resources online or books?
Tibuda
June 7th, 2010, 01:55 PM
Where can I learn more about Latex? Any good resources online or books?
Here are some resources in my bookmarks:
http://www.latex-project.org/
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
http://web.reed.edu/cis/help/latex/
http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/
Kdar
June 7th, 2010, 02:05 PM
thanks!
NovaAesa
June 7th, 2010, 02:06 PM
Where can I learn more about Latex? Any good resources online or books?

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
hessiess
June 7th, 2010, 06:47 PM
Try LaTeX http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
juancarlospaco
June 7th, 2010, 06:59 PM
Get lyx
Legendary_Bibo
June 7th, 2010, 07:39 PM
Sorry, I like Matlab's and Octave's syntax 10x better than OOo's formulas, unfortunately, neither of them (out of the box anyway), have pretty print. Still though, in comparison, OOo has some really funky syntax. (IMO anyway).

I find a lot of it logical. It sounds like what you would say to someone else when you're telling them what a formula should look like. I do agree some of the syntax is a little weird for certain function and would really have been best with the point and click method i.e. writing out limit function and the expanding parenthesis.