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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 21 17:05:55 +0000 2007 ------- Folks I would not want to sound as an unappreciative user, so let me pour some compliments first. I believe that the OpenOffice Math is the best tool available for typing mathematics and scientific articles/papers. Firstly it is competitive with LaTeX (spell checking, thesaurus, convenient table handling, PDF generation, etc. are unmatched, TeX is an awesome tool, yet a modern document needs all these, it is not just about mathematics.) Secondly it is much—by a huge margin—better than Microsoft Word precisely because I know and comfortable with “markup” therefore I am a lot more productive in OpenOffice Writer's math than in Microsoft Word. In Microsoft Word one has to click and use “selection window”, which is way dumb/slow (which explains why TeX is still quite popular). The only feature on my “wish-list” is an ability to overwrite math font sizes for the entire document without the necessity to click on each and single formula and do the “Format”-> “Font size” thing. For instance, suppose I want to increase subscripts sizes for the entire document's math formulas, right now there is no documented way to do it “cleanly”. Now, having said all these fine compliments (“best tool on the planet amongst commercial and open-source tools” sure sounds great), I would strongly urge you to really fix this defect. I just downloaded the latest developer's version, pretty much the same “show-stopper” behavior. You are ruining your own success, I would imagine that lots of users are from academia and occasionally or heavily use Math, don't mess it up! :-) Once users lose confidence in OpenOffice, it would be hard to win them back. Fix this bug, it very much is a show stopper, real disaster. I did have to downgrade (luckily one of our solaris boxes still had OpenOffice 2.2). PS why did you mark this defect RESOLVED—where is the patch I can download? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
