On Tuesday 19 August 2003 10:24 am, Sean Estabrooks wrote: > > I know about Lyx, in fact I use it all the time and I was asking this > > same question before in Lyx mailing list. Lyx can make beautiful formula, > > but it treats graphic as different object, and there is no way you can > > put formula on a graphic, at least not easily. > > Apparently there is something call PSTrick that will do it with latex or > > something like that, if I am not mistaken, but I don't know enough latex > > yet to be able to use it's drawing capabilities. Maybe it's time to > > learn. > > Hey Reuben, > > Just tried kword under redhat9 and it may be good enough to do what you > want. You can insert a formula box and edit it with some simple controls. > Then highlight the formula box that surrounds your formula and right-click. > Uncheck the "inline" option which will allow your formula box to free-float > anywhere on the page. Simply position it overtop of an inserted picture. > You can also insert an object-frame-formula which allows the formula to > have a transparent background (ie. so it doesn't obscure any of the image > at all) but i found this a bit slow and klunky.
OK. I'll give this a try. I am still on RH 7.3 and I think RH 9 has newer version of KOffice. I'll have to check on my other devel box. Thanks a lot for helping. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
