From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 21:31:31 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E4316A417 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:31:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.le_barbier@laposte.net) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (smtp5-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF5513C448 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:31:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.le_barbier@laposte.net) Received: from smtp5-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C0F3F615F; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:31:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Llea.celt.neu (ron34-3-82-236-236-194.fbx.proxad.net [82.236.236.194]) by smtp5-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC453F6192; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:31:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Llea.celt.neu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Llea.celt.neu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l95LZ1ul033494; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:35:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michael.le_barbier@laposte.net) Received: (from michael@localhost) by Llea.celt.neu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l95LYwOh033490; Fri, 5 Oct 2007 23:34:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michael.le_barbier@laposte.net) X-Authentication-Warning: Llea.celt.neu: michael set sender to michael.le_barbier@laposte.net using -f To: jahnke@sonatabio.com References: <1191604254.2944.12.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> From: michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:34:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1191604254.2944.12.camel@pinot.fmjassoc.com> (Frank Jahnke's message of "Fri\, 05 Oct 2007 10\:10\:54 -0700") Message-ID: <86k5q1gs8t.fsf@Llea.celt.neu> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: michaelgrunewald@yahoo.fr, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Equations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:31:31 -0000 Frank Jahnke writes: >> Since you seem to use the equation feature quite intensively, maybe >> you have any clue on making the equation editor perform better. > > Sorry I can't really be of much help with OO.o equations.=20=20 > > What I do personally is a kludge, but it works well enough. For > ... Thank you for your nice answer. It seems there is no reason to be optimistic about the existence of an ``office-like'' program that deals smartly with equations. I am always a bit surprised that TeX was released in 78 (before my birth!) and---despite its algorithms are published---its output quality remains unmatched [1] by common programs. Why these programs do not apply TeX's strategies to solve their problems? This makes me wonder. [1] Lyx was mentioned elsethread, on the project's website I found a text example processed by TeX and Word. The text is four pages long, the columns ist not especially narrow. To prepare this text, Word needs 8 word hyphenations in the first page, with three of them in a row (which is very bad). In the TeX processed version, theres is only two word hyphenations in the whole document. WWW: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/ComparingLyXAndWord This is not a definite proof that TeX's output quality remains unmatched, but just an example. --=20 Cheers, Micha=EBl