Hello Thomas.
I appreciate very much your reply and indications. Now I understand why it
is difficult to export your equations to other word processors. Your
explanations were most useful.
I will try to change the font manually and see how it works.
Best,
Jose
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: openoffice.users
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:04 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Equation Editor
Hello Jose,
Jose A. Cordero wrote:
> Hi. I have been an avid user of the Open Office equation editor in
writer. I like very much the fact that we can just "type" the contents
of the formula (without having to do hundreds of clicks on symbols, as
in the MS word equation editor).
> But I have had two problems:
> 1. The squared brackets do not go down to the bottom of the display,
i.e. the squared brackets get truncated before they reach the end of the
display. I have tried to do the "right [" option, etc, but it does not
help: the brackets remain truncated.
If you are using standalone formulas (not embedded in other documents):
Are you sure this is not just a problem with the current zoom setting?
(too high a value for the size of the formula)
Please try to change the zoom setting to 100% or optimal.
And if you are using e.g. formulas in text documents also please just
try with different zoom sizes. It probably will be visible for some and
invisible for others.
And are you using OpenOffice or StarOffice?
The difference is that OpenOffice uses the OpenSymbol font and
StarOffice the StarSymbol font. (The latter one can't be made public
since it is a licensed font from a third party.)
One of the difference between those fonts is that StarSymbol uses hints
whereas hinting is (not yet) implemented for the OpenSymbol font.
And missing hinting may result in very small lines (especially
horizontal or vertical ones) to be completely left out by the rendering
functions if the resolution of the device is too small (as often is the
case with display resolutions).
Since printers have much better resolutions there will usually be no
problem when printing the document.
> 2. I write a lot of documents with a lot of formulas: I have no
problems when printing the documents (except with the bracket display
issue mentioned above). The problem arises when I have to send the paper
out to a publisher who requests that the paper be submitted in MS Word.
The text can be exported nicely into the MS Word document, but the
formulas that have sub-indices or greek symbols, or hats and dots, are
ruined.
>
> To solve this problem No. 2, I have been exporting the Open Office
write document as a PDF file, and then I copy and pasting the formula
from the PDF document into the MS Word document. This is better than
exporting the document directly from Open Office to Word, but still does
not look very good, and the publisher complains.
The problem here (at least for most of the greek characters) is that the
unicode range the predefined characters use are unfortunately in the
private area range and thus (as it turned out much later) can not be
properly exported to other applications that use different fonts.
A work around for this would be to redefine those characters manually
e.g. by using a much common font like "Times new roman" and select the
respective characters from there.
This issue is known but cannot be fixed properly until we will now for
sure which font will be used in the next major version and if we have
the rights to modify it.
Regards,
Thomas
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