[ale] Anybody writing chemical equations in OpenOffice?

[Paul Cartwright]

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Thompson Freeman wrote:
> I thank the list for the help earlier regrading getting OpenOffice to 
> create some chemical symbols. The technique does require going into the 
> math equation editor, but it isn't all that horrid.
> 
> I think I have the current level of processing under control, which is 
> creating full chemical equations for my students. But these are simple, 
> non-equilibrium equations, so I'm looking for the techniques needed to 
> go forward. Yes, I'm wandering around Google, but it would really be a 
> help if I found somebody who uses OpenOffice to create chemically 
> oriented documents to ask questions of. 
> 
> Anybody on this list doing this type of writing??
> 
found this:
http://www.linux.com/feature/118986

 OO Writer is useless for scientific writing as it lacks important plug-ins!
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 132.187.161.101] on October 13, 2007 02:47 PM
Absulute majority of scientific writing in biomedical, chemical and
social sciences (which together constitute for absolute majority of all
scientific papers published today) is done using your hated M$ Word.
Why? Because managing of citation databases required for any scientific
paper depends on EndNote or ReferenceManager - these are plugins for MS
Word, both Windows and Mac versions. No any such plugin for OO. Untill
that OO Writer, AbiWord etc are USELESS for scientific writing! Yes, I
know that LatEX has something for managing references... which will take
me a LOT of time to learn (I have my scientific objectives to
concentrate on....), and the data (working citation databases) will be
not shearable within scientific community. Yes, I know that LaTEX is
used widely within engineering community, but that's completely
different story.
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Paul Cartwright
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