[opensuse] SuSE 10.3 & Cross Over & MathType
In the end of 2005 I installed CrossOver on my laptop running SuSE 9.3. It was necessary to produce plenty of slides (OO and PowerPoint are not completely compaticle when it comes to formulae containing math symbols and inserted images). My supervisor gave me a MathType license. MathType http://www.cymaths.co.uk/khxc/index.php?app=gbu0&ns=catshow&ref=MathType&prodsort=NAMEUP allows for generating nice formulae on WIndows. I never had any problem with MathType running through CrossOver. But now I have SuSE 10.3. I also have upgraded CrossOver to the latest version, and tried to install MathType 5.2c. The installation completes fine but all the math symbols are screwed up. Then I uninstalled 5.2c and installed the latest version 6.0. To my dismay I get the same mess with the formulae. To your knowledge, are there special MS fonts I should install to be able to work with all these s/w pieces put together ? I remember downloading some "gift" from MS at the time I installed Cross Over in 2005. But I never had to worry about that again until right now. So I cannot remember .. I would appreciate some help from any SuSE fan that has *regretfully* to deal with WIndows products. Thank you in advance. Maura Maura Edelweiss M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 23 November 2007 06:58:43 pm Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I remember downloading some "gift" from MS at the time I installed Cross Over in 2005. But I never had to worry about that again until right now. So I cannot remember ..
Maybe installing MS true type fonts will solve the problem. It should be visible in YaST Online Update when you select All patches as filter. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 23 November 2007 06:58:43 pm Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I remember downloading some "gift" from MS at the time I installed Cross Over in 2005. But I never had to worry about that again until right now. So I cannot remember ..
Maybe installing MS true type fonts will solve the problem. It should be visible in YaST Online Update when you select All patches as filter.
You also could install Internet Exploer 6 (provided you have a license of at least win 98). Imho this provides the MS (web)fonts and also some wellcomed dlls. Futhermore I am unsure whether installing the MS true type package will provide the fonts for crossover. If not, it might be easier to download the font files from here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34153&release_id=105355 and then execute each "fontname.exe" file from crossover. Kind regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 24 November 2007 02:00:20 am Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Rajko M. wrote:
On Friday 23 November 2007 06:58:43 pm Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
I remember downloading some "gift" from MS at the time I installed Cross Over in 2005. But I never had to worry about that again until right now. So I cannot remember ..
Maybe installing MS true type fonts will solve the problem. It should be visible in YaST Online Update when you select All patches as filter.
You also could install Internet Exploer 6 (provided you have a license of at least win 98).
Imho this provides the MS (web)fonts and also some wellcomed dlls.
Futhermore I am unsure whether installing the MS true type package will provide the fonts for crossover.
Sure. I haven't used Wine for a while and I have forgotten that fonts have to be in different directory than other system fonts. It would be <something_called_c>/windows/fonts.
If not, it might be easier to download the font files from here http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34153&release_id=1053 55
and then execute each "fontname.exe" file from crossover.
Kind regards Eberhard
-- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 16:58 -0800, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
In the end of 2005 I installed CrossOver on my laptop running SuSE 9.3. It was necessary to produce plenty of slides (OO and PowerPoint are not completely compaticle when it comes to formulae containing math symbols and inserted images). My supervisor gave me a MathType license. MathType http://www.cymaths.co.uk/khxc/index.php?app=gbu0&ns=catshow&ref=MathType&prodsort=NAMEUP
allows for generating nice formulae on WIndows. I never had any problem with MathType running through CrossOver.
How about forgetting the ms programs altogether? I remember reading that serious academics use latex for math symbols and technical documents. As per this quote I found when googling for the original article (which I couldn't find again): "Lyx is a front end to LaTeX. It is great for producing academic documents, writing school projects, etc, all of those things that require a document nicely laid out. It uses LaTeX, which is THE standard in math academia, so it is great for producing documents with a lot of math symbols (MUCH better than any of those rubbishy equation editors that come with most word processors... this one is the "REAL THING" ). And, of course, it's free. This package is my pick for producing technical documents." Maybe check it out and convert your supervisor to linux! Gavin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 24 November 2007 13:01, Gavin Chester wrote:
How about forgetting the ms programs altogether? I remember reading that serious academics use latex for math symbols and technical documents.
LaTeX is certainly worth looking at - see, for instance: http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial10.html http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Math There is an online LaTeX editor at: http://www.sciencesoft.at/flashlatex.jsp?lang=en&remove=1 and an online equation editor at: http://www.sitmo.com/latex
"Lyx is a front end to LaTeX. <snip>
I would avoid Lyx in favour of Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net) - it is not WYSIWYG, but it is much easier to see what LaTeX is doing. Lyx tends to hide all of this, so you don't really learn LaTeX, and I have had Lyx corrupt files too. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.thinkopen.co.uk - blog www.kyfieithu.co.uk - KDE yn Gymraeg www.klebran.org.uk - Gwirydd gramadeg rhydd i'r Gymraeg www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kevin Donnelly schreef:
On Saturday 24 November 2007 13:01, Gavin Chester wrote:
How about forgetting the ms programs altogether? I remember reading that serious academics use latex for math symbols and technical documents.
LaTeX is certainly worth looking at - see, for instance: http://www.andy-roberts.net/misc/latex/latextutorial10.html http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Math
There is an online LaTeX editor at: http://www.sciencesoft.at/flashlatex.jsp?lang=en&remove=1 and an online equation editor at: http://www.sitmo.com/latex
"Lyx is a front end to LaTeX. <snip>
I would avoid Lyx in favour of Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net) - it is not WYSIWYG, but it is much easier to see what LaTeX is doing. Lyx tends to hide all of this, so you don't really learn LaTeX, and I have had Lyx corrupt files too.
I second that. Moreover, if you add packages like prosper. you are able to make pdf presentations that run circles around power point. However, it is my experience, that pple using the MS presentation toolkit like ppt and what have you are usually not inclined to invest that extra effort to learn latex. That's why I have been sitting on my hands during this thread, although I would have liked to make exactly this suggestion. It cures your troubles once and for all. Well, let's be fair, it replaces them by other troubles, but ones you can cope with in this environment. :-) Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 24 November 2007 08:00, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
...
LaTeX is certainly worth looking at ...
"Lyx is a front end to LaTeX.
<snip>
I would avoid Lyx in favour of Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net) - it is not WYSIWYG, but it is much easier to see what LaTeX is doing. Lyx tends to hide all of this, so you don't really learn LaTeX, and I have had Lyx corrupt files too.
I agree with the Kile recommendation. Version 2.0 is just out and Packman has the requisite packages (there was period of several hours a day or so ago when the upgrade couldn't be completed 'cause the packaging was in flux and there were missing dependencies, but that has passed). And Lyx is (tries to be) WYSYWIG? For TeX / LaTeX? Isn't that oxymoronic?
-- Pob hwyl / Best wishes
Kevin Donnelly
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Randall R Schulz schreef:
And Lyx is (tries to be) WYSYWIG? For TeX / LaTeX? Isn't that oxymoronic?
Not exactly WISIWYG, but WYSISOWYG (sort of what you get). Lyx has its good points, it let's you throw together a simple paper quickly. Especially if you have a lot of matrices it is a time saver. However, if you want something complex, like aligned sets of equations the AMS-way, you have to fall back on Latex anyway. Furthermore LyX occasionally screws up the LaTeX source in such a way that you have to handcraft it anyway. As far as I know the LyX project has been abandoned. Regards, -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday, 25 November 2007 21:38:26 Jos van Kan wrote:
As far as I know the LyX project has been abandoned.
Did you actually check the website (http://www.lyx.org) The latest version was released October 2007... -- Regards Scott Newton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Scott Newton schreef:
On Sunday, 25 November 2007 21:38:26 Jos van Kan wrote:
As far as I know the LyX project has been abandoned.
Did you actually check the website (http://www.lyx.org) The latest version was released October 2007...
No I did not. Just goes to show how much I know. :-) -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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