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=== Introduction ===

=== Introduction ===

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.

LibreOffice Math ('Math' hereafter)  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 well 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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|LibreOffice Writer is a software used for creating (including writing, editing, formatting, type setting and possibly printing) mathematical formulae.  

|LibreOffice Math is a software used for creating (including writing, editing, formatting, type setting and printing) mathematical formulae.  

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LibreOffice Writer includes insertion of mathematical expressions in documents. A special feature. LibreOffice Math is an application that assists in insertion of mathematic or scientific formulas of a wide range is a part of LibreOffice writer.  

LibreOffice Writer includes insertion of mathematical expressions in documents. A special feature. LibreOffice Math is an application that assists in insertion of mathematic or scientific formulas of a wide range is a part of LibreOffice writer.  

LibreOffice Writer treats formulae as objects. For insertion of an expression at any point in the document goto     '''Insert ( in menu bar ) →  Object →   Formula.'''  

LibreOffice Writer treats formulae as objects. For insertion of an expression at any point in the document go to '''Insert (in menu bar) → Object → Formula.'''  

The Formula Window appears on the left hand-side, it has a variety of operations, functions and attributes that can be included in the document. The top drop down menu helps us toggle between different operations. Selecting the operations  from the drop down box displays all the mathematical notations under each category. Clicking on the required mathematical notation inserts the notation in the document.  

The Formula Window appears on the left hand-side, it has a variety of operations, functions and attributes that can be included in the document. The top drop down menu helps us toggle between different operations. Selecting the operations  from the drop down box displays all the mathematical notations under each category. Clicking on the required mathematical notation inserts the notation in the document.  

In tool-bar content scroll down and click on the check box for '''formula'''.

In tool-bar content scroll down and click on the check box for '''formula'''.

Then press '''Enter''' , this provides a shortcut for formula insertion in the standard menu bar  

Then press '''Enter''' , this provides a short cut for formula insertion in the standard menu bar  

Clicking on it opens the same formula window which we can use to insert and edit formulae.

Clicking on it opens the same formula window which we can use to insert and edit formulae.