Enabling equation editor in kingsoft wps office suite

Question

All solutions found on the net said to download a certain wps_symbol_fonts.zip file (available on the net) then to extract its contents (mtextra.ttf, symbol.ttf, WEBDINGS.TTF, wingding.ttf, WINGDNG2.ttf, WINGDNG3.ttf) to a fonts/ folder (I used /usr/share/fonts/wps_symbol_fonts/) and finally to reload fonts with:

fc-cache -fv

I tried this on two different Ubuntu versions, but never succeeded in getting the equation editor menu enabled!

Answer 1

WPS Office does not have the tool to Equation Editor as it does in windows

On Windows Equation Editor Software executable .exe are inside this path:

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Kingsoft\WPS Office\11.2.0.9906\office6\mui\default\resource\ksee

Note: You need enable view hidden files and folders in windows to find that path.

there is the next folder and files:

Fonts

ee3.dsc

EqnEdit.exe

Equation Editor.chm

Note: You can open the Windows help file on Linux with: xchm or kchmviewer

In the next picture on Linux I have that folder from WPS Office Windows Version with the executable:

EqnEdit.exe

Note: You can obtain that on Windows if you have installed WPS Office. Search in that path.

This software where made for:

http://www.dessci.com

Note: I do not know if in the future they ask that company to make a version for Linux

You can execute this on Linux with wine but the formula generated is not possible to insert to WPS Writer and this tool not have any way to export in file the content code formula language to view the code. But there is a way to enter that on WPS Office Linux version with code:

Enter Fraction and Radical Number in WPS Office Writer enabling Equation Field Code

Acording to this tutorial: http://help.wps.com/articles/how-to-enter-fraction-and-radical-number-in-writer to enable Toggle Field Codes you need to use the shortcut:

Ctrl+F9

now the following appears:

then in the generated field enter (or paste but wihout format):

eq \f(3,4)

Next, click the right mouse button and choose "Toggle Field Codes" from context menu:

now see a fraction:

And in that web page said the next example:

to do that enter:

eq \r(3,2)

with right clic:

and edit:

and appear:

[

I go to enter this in the same place:

eq \f(3,4 ) eq \r(3,2)

and appear repeated "eq":

for this reason delete this second word:

eq \f(3,4 ) \r(3,2)

and now ok:

Now I do other example:

eq × = \f(13 × 7,201 ÷ 6 ) ÷ \r(4, 2 ÷ 3)

And Togle Field Codes:

To do that I insert × and ÷ symbols with that tool in WPS Office:

¿The rest of the codes?

I do not know the language in which these codes are written, I have tried to search the Web for a manual to be able to write the formulas in code but I cannot find anywhere. At the moment what I am going to do is write to the developers because there on that page it says that they can be written:

If you know the codes help us

Answer 2

Equation is not supported in WPS office currently so there is no way to enable this function.

Answer 3

I found the solution right HERE and it worked perfectly for me with the latest WPS Office on Ubuntu 17.10. I used the "Manual installation" method.

For this tutorial we will use the /tmp directory to temporarily save the files.

Change directories to the /tmp directory.

cd /tmp

Clone the Git repository.

git clone https://github.com/iamdh4/ttf-wps-fonts.git

Create a sub directory in your system's fonts directory. This is usually /usr/share/fonts, otherwise consult your distribution's documentation.

sudo mkdir /usr/share/fonts/wps-fonts

Move fonts to the new directory.

sudo mv ttf-wps-fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/wps-fonts

Fix the file permissions.

sudo chmod 644 /usr/share/fonts/wps-fonts/*

Rebuild the font cache.

sudo fc-cache -vfs

Clean up the /tmp directory.

rm -rf /tmp/ttf-wps-fonts