ot: formula editor needed

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Martin Czech <martin.czech at intermetall.de>
Subject: ot: formula editor needed
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:32:53 +0100 (MET)

> Does anyone know a PD or FREE mathematical formula editor,
> so I can set up proper looking math formulas 
> in text documents?
> 
> Please not Mathematica or other expensive stuff.

You could allways use TeX or even LaTeX. That would give you pretty nice
printouts and even page layout. I usually use LyX (http://www.lyx.org/)
to write document in and I can do pretty nasty formulas without it breaking
(well, it did a long time ago, but I reported the bug and it is now long gone).

You can get GIF/TIFF/PNG output is you really want.

TeX is the text layout tool written by Donald Knuth (as in "The Art of Computer
Programing"). TeX gives really, really nice results and I would not be
supprised to find that a number of people here would have written their thesis
in it.

LyX is just a WYSIWYM GUI frontend which uses TeX for the real formating.

Both are free.

Cheers,
Magnus