Andy (and everyone), That is exactly what I was going for! Thank you all so much. I will definitely use the user group for a problem before the presentation next time!! :) My professor was very impressed with the look of our presentation anyway, and he wanted to know what we used, so now I am convincing him to try OO for Math and other office needs. He likes to spread the word about these types of things to the students too, so hopefully we will have some more converts.
Thanks again, everybody, Michael Lichtenstein -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Lewis Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 2:10 PM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Re: OO Math Symbol Andy Lewis wrote: > Mike Lichtenstein wrote: >> Hello, > >> This is my first time writing to the group. >> >> I recently used, and convinced my Calculus group, to use OO Math in >> order to input a Calculus II project for a presentation. We ran into >> a problem when we could not find a symbol for "Evaluated from a to b", >> such as the small attached image (I hope that is allowed), or >> something similar to this: >> > |b > f(x)| > |a >> >> We ended up just creating it in a graphics program and creating jpgs >> from the OO Math file, which does not seem like the correct way to do >> this at all. >> > > Hi Michael > > The best I've come up with is: > > f(x) size*1.7 "|"_a^b > > which doesn't look too bad though you might prefer the vertical line to > be longer. (The factor of 1.7 is to compensate for the standard > subscript and superscript size being 60% of full size - thus the a and b > are 102% of full size, and the vertical line is 170% of full size.) > > I also tried along the lines of: > > f(x) left lline stack{b # "" # a} right rline > > (You can omit the words "left" and "right" if you have the "scale all > brackets" option turned on by default, as I do.) But this has the > unwanted right-hand line, and I can't work out a way to omit it since > Math expects brackets to be in pairs. Someone may come up with a way > round that. > > Hope that is some help? > > Andy [Replying to myself here!] f(x) left lline stack{b # "" # a} right none gets rid of the unwanted second line. This is my best effort so far. Andy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
