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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Latex export filter from KFormula
From:       Brad Hards <bradh () frogmouth ! net>
Date:       2005-04-23 7:15:21
Message-ID: 200504231715.27670.bradh () frogmouth ! net
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:30 pm, Brian Bockelman wrote:
> (Before I say anything else, this is actually a help offer, not a
> nagging user email)
And very welcome you are, step this way :-)

> As someone who is interested in koffice and who produces about 5 pages
> of Latex a day, I was absolutely mortified to see the latex output
> from kformula.  For example, if I wanted to look at the integral of
> x^2, I would type in Latex the following line:
>
> \int x^2
>
> kformula (as of the latest snapshot tarball I could find) produces this:
>
> { \int{{ {}{ x}^{ 2}}}}
>
> As far as I can tell, this is valid LaTex... virtually unreadable
> though.  LaTex, as opposed to MathML is supposed to be a human
> readable format!
>
> I fixed up the internals of kformula (small changes to the toLatex()
> function) to output not only correct latex output, but human readable
> output.  To whom should I send the diffs?  Also, if I have further
> contributions to the same area (kformula) in the future, is there a
> maintainer who will be able to accept / reject them?
You probably should post the patch to the koffice-devel mailing list. If you 
are going to be involved in the longer term, subscribing to 
koffice-devel@kde.org is probably a very good idea.

Brad

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