[scribus] mathematical equations

Joel C. Salomon joelcsalomon at gmail.com
Tue Jul 29 04:48:18 CEST 2008


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Thomas Zastrow
<listen at thomas-zastrow.de> wrote:
> Chris de Villiers schrieb:
>> Can anyone tell me whether it is possible to produce mathematical
>> equations in Scribus?
>
> In Scribus directly, its not possible. But you can do the following:
>
> - Create your equation in OpenOffice.
> - Right click on it and export it to MathML
> - Use JEuclid, a MathML implementation in Java, to convert the MathML-File
> into SVG, PostScript or whatever
> - Import that into scribus.

It might be considerably simpler, and achieve better results, to use
pdf(La)TeX.  You'd have to install that program, though.

--Joel




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