From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 08:32:42 EDT
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Reuben D Budiardja wrote:
> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:40:13 -0500
> From: Reuben D Budiardja <reubendb@goshen.edu>
> To: Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>, rw-abiword-user@altern.org
> Cc: AbiWord User List <abiword-user@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: help save our documents
> But abiword cannot convert the equations and formulas written in MS Word as
> an object. I tried this already, and all the equations just becomes blank.
skanky embedded objects! MathML is the future, (LaTeX is right here right
now).
Much as i like Abiword, Have you tried Open Office? (StarOffice is related
to Open Office).
It has an equation editor and i expect it can handle embedded maths
objects, I dont think it does LaTeX though.
Rather than making a front end to LaTeX, LyX might be suitable for your
needs. It is well worth your while searching for existing (La)TeX based
programs before writing your own frontend.
As for WordPerfect support i dont know how much the file format has
changed for WordPerfect 2000 but abiword does have some support for WordPerfect 6 & 7
so you should ask the guy who wrote the importer really nicely, but
dont expect handling embedded math objects anytime soon.
Later
Alan
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