How to use LaTeX in LibreOffice Writer?

[evgenius8888]

I’m relatively new to LibreOffice. Recently switched to it from Microsoft’s. In Word, when inserting formulas, there was an option to use LaTeX syntax, which was converted to normal math symbols upon clicking “convert”. It was extremely comfortable and I’d like to use such an option in LibreOffice, if possible.

I know about TexMaths extension already, but AFAIK it inserts formulas as images. Word’s way kept formulas editable just replacing LaTeX with Word formula symbols, which simplified their future editing and modification after copy/pasting. Is this possible?

[anon73440385]

I know about TexMaths extension already, but AFAIK it inserts formulas as images.

If you interpret this as I cannot edit a formula using TexMaths once included into Writer, then you are wrong. See also from the extension’s description https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/texmaths-1

 TexMaths is an addon designed to provide LaTeX support into LibreOffice. LaTeX equations can be inserted as images (SVG or PNG formats) and the LaTeX code is saved into the image attribute for further editing.

[RGB-es]

While TexMaths expressions are inserted as images, those images use metadata to store all the code (including the preamble!) to generate them, so they remain editable: just select the formula and call TexMaths again. Check the project documentation for more information.

In short, no, you cannot use LaTeX directly in Writer, but TexMaths gets pretty close. You can even use XeTeX and unicode-math with TexMaths!

[charts_etc]

Is it possible to convert the Textmaths/Writer file to MS Word format such that the equations in Word will be in Latex format rather than an image? Thanks

[Pascalb]

First, install miktex :
https://miktex.org/download
and then TexMaths extention :
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/texmaths-1

It works on Windows 10 system and Write 7.4.3.2 .