[scribus] Dumb newbie question

Owen rcook at pcug.org.au
Mon Mar 30 20:00:03 CEST 2009


> On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:40:04 -0400
> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> dijo:
>
>> There should be some easy to find resources re: LaTeX commands.
>> ftp://ftp.ams.org/pub/tex/doc/amsmath/short-math-guide.pdf
>> for example.
>
> I looked at the PDF, but it doesn't have enough examples.
>
> My reluctance to take the time to learn it is because I only ever need
> one type of formula. It's a lot of work to learn the whole Latex thing
> just to do one kind of formula. This is all I need:
>
> [ sometext   ]
> [ moretext   ]
> [ moreagain ]
>
> Where the brackets are stretched to enclose the text items. And
> sometimes I might need to nest two or more such brackets inside
> braces.



Use text boxes to layout your text (TEXT)
use the line tool to draw your brackets




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Owen





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