From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 22 01:01:24 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B23BDCC for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from m1plsmtpa01-07.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (m1plsmtpa01-07.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA752768 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:01:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ethic.thought.org ([209.180.213.209]) by m1plsmtpa01-07.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net with id sQzQ1m00C4XeM0101QzbnP; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:59:48 -0700 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:59:33 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Polytropon Subject: Re: math "formulae" using libreoffice Message-ID: <20131122005933.GA3297@ethic.thought.org> References: <20131120000851.GA8007@ethic.thought.org> <20131120014303.7eb2bd44.freebsd@edvax.de> <20131120014134.GA9893@ethic.thought.org> <20131121001853.GA18522@ethic.thought.org> <20131121211010.fd168924.freebsd@edvax.de> <20131121234959.GB28395@ethic.thought.org> <20131122011153.fc81837d.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131122011153.fc81837d.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:01:24 -0000 Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 01:11:53AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:49:59 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 09:10:10PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:18:53 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > [it's a nonsense > > > > formula, really.] ---anybody know how I can put a square > > > > around the expression? > > > > > > That could be done with Insert -> Frame (german version: Rahmen). > > > Then define the desired border width for the frame and how it > > > should flow in the text (anchor at paragraph or as a character; > > > flow parallel). Put the formula into the frame. > > > > > > is this openoffice? how about libreoffice? I'll google > > around for "frame".... > > That's the _german_ version of OpenOffice (the only german > version of a software I use, only occassionally). In LibreOffice > it should be similar, but I don't know the _english_ name of > the thing. It's in the "Insert" menu and allows you to add > frames. Those can be placed anywhere in the text and contain > text (and also a formula), and they can have borders of > variable thickness. > > >From the list at https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Insert_Menu > I think it's actually called "Frame". You can doubleclick on > the resulting frame to set its options with a dialog with several > tabs; https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Frame has some help > about that, it matches what I see in OpenOffice. > > In many regards, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are "the same", even > though LibreOffice is "the new" OpenOffice today. The fact that > I'm still using it is that my home installation is already several > years old and I never touch a running system. :-) > > I'l ck it out, thankee. I have been wondering about the diff between openX and libreX {X == "office"} but guessed that "open" was what the BSD's chose ... BTW, yr "Helpful page:" was a win++. the times that Knuth drove up for lectures, we got into a philosophical chat: life/death/disability. His lecture covered his hacking on curves, IIRC. "S", "C", "O":: there's a serious amount of math in those glyph... > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Twenty-seven years of service to the Unix community. http://www.thought.org/HOPE