OO demo (Re: [Nottingham] Hanson Chinese Meeting Update)

Martin nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Mon Aug 11 17:05:01 2003


Roger Light wrote:
[...]
> 
> I actually used OO last week for the first time really, so don't
> expect any useful tutorials from me, but the thing that really
> impressed me was the formula editor - it is a real dream to use. The
> MS version is just pointy clicky but the OO editor is text command
> based and easy to pick up so even though you have to use the pointy
> clicky part at first, you get much faster as time goes on.
> 
> I appreciate that a formula editor isn't the most used feature for
> many people but for those that do use one the OO version is a god
> send.
> 
> A simple example (as I know you're all dying to see :)
> 
> I_{PD} = I_{DC} + I_{AC} cdot sin(2 %pi cdot f_{i} cdot t + %phi)
> 
> That's the other beauty of course - you could paste that into OO and
> see my equation. You couldn't do that easily with Word. Woo.


And very nice it renders to for a formula of an ac waveform with dc
offset and phase shift. Looks rather similar to the old latex system.

...So how do you get it to produce a pretty graph?

(;->>)
Martin

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