On 12/14/2008 01:56 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:40:55 -0800
> John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
> 
>> A professor has created a clever way to create brackets for feature
>> matrices in phonology. Unfortunately, he did it in Word. Here is his
>> Word file:
>> 
>> http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/120a/Brackets.htm
> 
>> Can anyone get this to work? Better yet, can anyone think of a way to
>> do it natively in Writer?
> 
> Wait, I think I know the answer. We can do it in OOo Writer with Insert
>> Formula. Or Insert > Field. I just can't figure out exactly how to do it.
> 
> A feature matrix looks like (for example):
> 
>       [       +syllabic       ]
>       [       -voice  ]
>       [       +coronal        ]
>       [       +nasal  ]
> 
> The number of lines varies from one feature to a dozen. In this e-mail
> I used individual brackets for each line, but in real work the sides of
> the feature matrix should have one tall bracket on each side (like the
> x-y example on the professor's web page above).
> 
> I'm off to study Writer's Insert > Formula features to see if I can
> figure it out. Meantime, if there are any experts here on how to create
> tall brackets on the sides of a formula, please share!

No help here?
<http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0111GS-GettingStartedWithMath.pdf>



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