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Agreed that this is not issue to be fixed by the formula editor group, as other
software may embed the formula object within it, and a fix in formula editor
group will affect many unrelated applications. However listen :
I believe that this is still the case with open office 2.1 release.
The caveman's typesetter, Latex, for example has a way of creating inline
equations by using a "$" notation example: "The formula $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$ is
known as Pythagoras's equation". Text separated and multi-line equations have
their own markup \begin{equation} ... \end{equation} and \begin{eqnarray[*]}
... \end{eqnarray[*]}. The nature of latex is such that there need not be
software intelligence as to when to do what, because the the users actually
doing all the work. Thats not the paradigm of modern day software.
Automatically determine the mode of the formula editor, whether it is in
text-mode/normal, is a very practical feature to avoid several thought
distracting mouse clicks when creating mathematical documents with several
equations.
Open Office writer can be smart an embed the formula object in textmode setting
whenever the user is typing in a paragraph (taking cue from the text style
setting) and embed the formula object in normal mode when the style setting is
equation or something, or when the embed formula macro "type fn, select
it,press F3"
Suggest that this issue be reopened and transfered to the word processor/writer
or appropriate group, and work together to make a useful and practical feature
possible.
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