I want to create a presentation in Impress and need to embed a formula in text. I only found very old forum posts (over five years old), which said it is not possible.
Has this changed by now? How can I do it?
How to embed formulas in a line of text using OpenOffice Impress
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Best Answer
No, it is not possible to embed a formula or a graphical object in text in draw and impress.
In Libreoffice/Openoffice terms this would be called "anchoring the formula as a character". This is something that is possible in writer (contrary to one of the answers above).
TeXMaths is a great addition to Libreoffice, but can in no way help on this issue.
Unfortunately, this is a great deficiency that makes impress very very badly suited for any serious scientific presentation.
If you want to follow the state of this issue, look at https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35033
If you want to support the addition of this feature to libreoffice, there is a bounty that you can contribute to at http://www.freedomsponsors.org/core/issue/473/allow-inline-graphics-formulas-in-impress-and-draw