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=== Introduction ===
 
=== Introduction ===
LibreOffice Writer is a free and open-source Formula Editing application of the LibreOffice software package. Math can be invoked in your text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings, enabling you to insert perfectly formatted mathematical and scientific formulas. Your formulas can include a wide range of elements, from fractions, terms with exponents and indices, integrals, and mathematical functions, to inequalities, systems of equations, and matrices.
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LibreOffice Math is a free and open-source formula editing application of the LibreOffice software package. Math can be invoked in your text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and drawings, enabling you to insert perfectly formatted mathematical and scientific formulas. Your formulas can include a wide range of elements, from fractions, terms with exponents and indices, integrals, and mathematical functions, to inequalities, systems of equations, and matrices.
    
You can start Math either as a stand-alone application directly from the LibreOffice Start Center or directly from within other LibreOffice applications such as Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw.
 
You can start Math either as a stand-alone application directly from the LibreOffice Start Center or directly from within other LibreOffice applications such as Writer, Calc, Impress and Draw.
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====Overview of features====
 
====Overview of features====
LibreOffice Math lets you type and format mathematical formulae that can include signs and symbols. In this application you can save the documents in a variety of formats, including the standardized Open Document Format (ODF) or MathML Format (mml). Here you can easily export your document to the Portable Document Format(PDF).
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LibreOffice Math lets you type and format mathematical formulae that can include signs and symbols. In this application you can save the documents in a variety of formats, including the standardized Open Document Format (ODF) or MathML Format (mml). Here you can easily export your document to the Portable Document Format(PDF). Math treats formulae as objects and does not perform any computation.
    
====Installation====
 
====Installation====
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=== Working with the application ===
 
=== Working with the application ===
Using the Formula Editor, you can create a formula as a separate document or file for a formula library, or insert formulas directly into a document using LibreOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, or Draw.
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Using the Formula Editor, you can insert formulas directly into a document using LibreOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, or Draw.
 
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==== Formulas as separate documents or files ====
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To create a formula as a separate document or file, use one of the following methods to open an empty formula document in LibreOffice Math :
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• On the menu bar, go to '''File > New > Formula'''
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• From the Start Center, click '''Math Formula'''
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•On the Standard toolbar, click the triangle to the right of the '''New''' icon and select '''Formula''' from the context menu.
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•In Math, use the keyboard shortcut '''Ctrl+N'''
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•Use command Import '''MathML''' from the clipboard
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As you enter the markup language in the Formula Editor, the formula will appear in the Preview window during and after input of the markup. The Elements window to the left of the Preview window may also appear, if it has been selected in View on the menu bar.  
      
==== Formulas in LibreOffice documents ====
 
==== Formulas in LibreOffice documents ====
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# The text or numbers in the formula structure can also be inserted by clicking on the specific place holders in the expression.  
 
# The text or numbers in the formula structure can also be inserted by clicking on the specific place holders in the expression.  
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>It is important to note that once we move the cursor away from the formula the formula window closes and to insert another formula we have to follow the steps to insert formula again.  
 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>It is important to note that once we move the cursor away from the formula the formula window closes and to insert another formula we have to follow the steps to insert formula again.  
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==== Inserting short cut for formula window in the main menu ====
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Click on '''Tools  →  Customize''', the customization window appears.
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Here, in tool-bar select '''Standard'''.
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In tool-bar content scroll down and click on the check box for '''formula'''.
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Then press '''Enter''' , this provides a shortcut for formula insertion in the standard menu bar  
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Clicking on it opens the same formula window which we can use to insert and edit formulae.
      
=== Inserting Formulae in LibreOffice Writer ===
 
=== Inserting Formulae in LibreOffice Writer ===
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==== Simple Arithmetic Operators ====
 
==== Simple Arithmetic Operators ====
1)[[File:Simplearithmetic 1.png|frameless]],[[File:Simplearithmetic2.png|frameless]]  
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1)[[File:Simplearithmetic 1.png|frameless]],[[File:Simplearithmetic2.png|frameless]]<math>a=\pm{5}</math>
    
[https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/2/26/Equals_not_equals_plus_or_minus.gif Link]
 
[https://teacher-network.in/OER/images/2/26/Equals_not_equals_plus_or_minus.gif Link]
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==== Relational Operators ====
 
==== Relational Operators ====
 
1) [[File:Relational1.png|frameless]],
 
1) [[File:Relational1.png|frameless]],
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=== Advanced Features : ===
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==== Formulas as separate documents or files ====
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To create a formula as a separate document or file, use one of the following methods to open an empty formula document in LibreOffice Math :
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• On the menu bar, go to '''File > New > Formula'''
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• From the Start Center, click '''Math Formula'''
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•On the Standard toolbar, click the triangle to the right of the '''New''' icon and select '''Formula''' from the context menu.
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•In Math, use the keyboard shortcut '''Ctrl+N'''
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•Use command Import '''MathML''' from the clipboard
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As you enter the markup language in the Formula Editor, the formula will appear in the Preview window during and after input of the markup. The Elements window to the left of the Preview window may also appear, if it has been selected in View on the menu bar.
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==== Inserting short cut for formula window in the main menu ====
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[image]
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Click on '''Tools  →  Customize''', the customization window appears.
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Here, in tool-bar select '''Standard'''.
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In tool-bar content scroll down and click on the check box for '''formula'''.
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Then press '''Enter''' , this provides a shortcut for formula insertion in the standard menu bar  
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Clicking on it opens the same formula window which we can use to insert and edit formulae.
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