At 20:34 10/10/2016 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote:
Brian Barker schrieb:
You might want to make use of the Unicode character U+0338
"Combining long solidus overlay" (or the similar U+0337 "Combining
short solidus overlay"). I don't see any way to insert special
characters directly into the Formula window, but you can copy and
paste them from the Writer window.
That was my first thought too, but the character do not combine for me.
How interesting! But I'm well out of my level of competence here.
I can certainly see some strange behaviour, including if I use a
different font for the combining character from that of the base
character. But once the combining character is inserted, it seems I
can change the font only for both characters together, so they will
then always be the same font anyway.
I also see strange behaviour if I stimulate OpenOffice to refresh its
display, e.g. by scrolling away from the characters and back again or
by minimising and restoring the window.
I also notice that it is possible to change the font - surprisingly
successfully - to one in which the combining character did not appear
in the Special Characters dialogue. I'm guessing that this means that
some sort of internal font substitution may be happening - in which
case I'd expect the behaviour to depend on available fonts and font
substitution rules and thus not be predictable between systems.
All this is why I suggested that perhaps hard copy or PDF would be
more reliable formats for document transfer than word processor.
But I don't really understand this. Did I say that?
Brian Barker
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