Math
The OpenOffice.org Math program helps you to create advanced mathematical formulas, using the right symbols properly aligned in the correct places. It comes preinstalled with Ubuntu, but for some reason its menu option has been set to hidden.
You can access it either by opening any other OpenOffice.org application and then selecting File → New → Formula or by right-clicking on the top-left Ubuntu menus and selecting Edit Menus to bring up the menu editor, as shown in Figure 12-17. In the menu editor, select Office in the lefthand pane to open the Office menu in the righthand one. Then, after you check the box next to OpenOffice.org Formula and click Close, the program will become available from the Applications → Office menu.

Figure 12-17. Editing the Office menu
Using Math, there are three main ways of entering a formula. You can type markup directly into the equation editor, right-click on the equation editor and select the symbol from the context menu, or select a symbol from the Selection toolbox.
Figure 12-18 shows an equation that has been entered as text into the equation editor, with its corresponding formula displayed in the top pane.

Figure 12-18. Creating formulas is easy with OpenOffice.org Math