[ale] Anybody writing chemical equations in OpenOffice?

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

Unless you are adamant about using OpenOffice, I highly suggest
learning LaTeX. It is MUCH easier to write such documents. Take a look
at the output[1] and the source[2] for my final lab report for the
class I took this past summer (note: the last large table was compiled
with calc2latex [3]).

[1] -- http://student.claytonstate.net/~jsumners/chem/Report.pdf
[2] -- http://student.claytonstate.net/~jsumners/chem/Report.tex
[3] -- http://calc2latex.sourceforge.net/

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Thompson Freeman
<tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> 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??
>
> Thanks again!



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