I am preparing a report related to physics which is full of Greek, stat and calculus things, I know there is this question how to insert a Greek symbol, but my problem is I cant fiddle with a drop down/ scroll list for for every symbol(my paper in FULL of those), is there a way to do something with my keyboard layout, and turn it into something like the one Tony Stark uses in Ironman(I am not kidding please). I am literally tired for this fiddle-work for half of the day and have completed just 2 sheets, hmmm.
Ubuntu – How to type all the math, stat, greek, equations EFFICIENTLY in libreoffice
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I know Libreoffice Math has a symbol catalog (I believe Libreoffice writer does too) but if copying from those does not work.
Try Ctrl+Shift+U, let go of u but not Shift+Ctrl and type 03A6 (Greek capital letter phi)
The code is ASCII, you can search for what you need here: http://ascii-table.com/unicode-search.php
Click on Gear icon (Session Indicator) in Unity panel and open system settings and select "Keyboard Layout".
Click on little plus button to add a new layout, Search for Persian and add it.
Now you will see a keyboard icon in your Unity panel, Just click on it to switch between layouts.
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Best Answer
LaTex is the standard document markup language for scientific papers. It's pretty hard to get in to for beginners, but very much worth the effort. Given your time constraints I would advise you to do the following:
Use a combination of TexMaths (for LaTex integration into LibreOffice) and a LaTex GUI equation editor like Daum Equation Editor (requires Google Chrome / Chromium but works fine offline) to create your formulae.