To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=113276 Issue #|113276 Summary|Math: Greek symbols and new OpenSymbol font Component|Formula editor Version|DEV300m83 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|NEW Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|TASK Priority|P3 Subcomponent|code Assigned to|tl Reported by|tl
------- Additional comments from [email protected] Tue Jul 20 09:50:16 +0000 2010 ------- ========================== Problem: Previously (up to, and including OOo 3.2) a formula like: %MU %PI " " nitalic {%MU %PI} " " italic {%MU %PI} newline %eta %kappa " " nitalic {%eta %kappa} " " italic {%eta %kappa} would have been rendered as in 'mathOSF_OOo3.2.png'. Please notice that you can't get a straight %PI it is slanted or even more slanted. :-( This however did not apply to %MU since the first comes from the StarSymbol/OpenSymbol font and the latter actually from TimesNewRoman since the old OpenSymbol font did only feature those non-Latin-looking Greek characters. That of course was a bug of the old font. This problem (and others) are now fixed in the new OpenSymbol font that will come with OOo 3.3. Currently(!) with a developers build like DEV300_m84 the above formula will be rendered as in 'mathOSF_OOo3.3.png'. You can easily see that 'italic' and 'nitalic' commands now have the proper effect on the characters. Also the non-altered charatcer (see first column) are defined as slanted by default right now since that is visually the best equivalent to the old look. Now in every formula at least one of the sample cases '%PI' 'nitalic PI' or 'italic PI' will look different compared to OOo 3.2 if rendered anew in OOo 3.3! (And it can't be fixed on import.) Also changing the default for Greek symbols to straight will not solve this since then only one of the other cases will turn out different. ========================== Having asked the users on the UX discussion list they majority wants that the Greek symbols (like %KAPPA, %kappa, ...) should not be slanted by default and that for each of them there should be a additional symbols, prefixed with 'i' (like %iKAPPA, %ikappa, ...) that are the slanted versions of the former ones. Implementation wise the new italic versions (%iKAPPA, %ikappa, ...) should go into a symbol set named iGreek. That should be done purely programmatically be prefixing each symbol in the 'Greek' symbol set with 'i', setting it to 'italic' and put them into the set 'iGreek'. The advantage of this solution is that no additional translation is required and thus consistency is guaranteed. The 'iGreek' symbol set should be calculated once per office start only when Math is used the first time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
