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nghiavd

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Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 11

Where's KFormula?

I'm a new KDE user. I tried out the KOffice today. It seems very nice and intergrates with KDE nicely. However I soon find out that it lacks a formula editor (OpenOffice's formula editor served me quite well). Then I google it up and find that it actually has a formula editor called KFormula. I've been looking for it in the repos and AUR packages but no luck. Is archlinux has the KFormula package?

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: Where's KFormula?

I don't think KOffice 2.x has KFormula. The Wikipedia page says its last release was 1.5.2 / July 14, 2006. And the KFormula url  just gets you a 404:

http://www.koffice.org/kformula/

nghiavd

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Registered: 2010-10-02

Posts: 11

Re: Where's KFormula?

Actually, I think KOffice 2.x has KFormula. In the KOffice blog about KOffice 2.1 bugfixes (http://www.koffice.org/blogs/thomaszand … office2-1/):

KFormula major improvements.
The formula editing component in KOffice has seen many upgrades since the 2.0 release. This means that all KOffice applications can now display and directly edit formulas. The GSoC project by Jeremias Epperlein has seen improvements specifically in rendering the formulas much more pleasing to the eye and the editing of a formula is well integrated into KOffice and quite easy to use.

I just don't know where the hell it is.

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: Where's KFormula?

It looks like the formulas tool is a plugin. Have you tried looking for "Advanced Shape Plugins" or just "shape plugins"?