On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 12:26:44 +0000
Brian Barker <[email protected]> dijo:
>At 18:55 22/01/2011 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>OOo 3.2.1 (from OOo) on Fedora 14, x86_64.
>>
>>I need to create a stacked formula that looks
>>like this (assume the braces are a single scalable brace on each
>>side):
>>
>> { Ō }
>> { Ŏ }
>> { Ŭ }
>> { AU }
>>
>>I hope there is someone here who understands the
>>formula syntax, because it sure has me confused.
>
>To create the large braces, you need the "stack"
>instruction and one fewer hash marks:
> left lbrace alignc stack { aaa # b # cc # d } right rbrace
>
>I don't see any way to insert special characters
>in the formula (Math) window itself. But it is
>perfectly possible to do so in a text (Writer)
>window - which I imagine you are composing in
>anyway - and then copy and paste them into the
>formula window. By doing this, I have been able
>to create exactly the effect and with the
>characters and diacritics you describe. You can
>change fonts at Format | Fonts... using Modify.
>
>I trust this helps.
That helped a lot!
It was the "stack" that I was missing.
I still couldn't get the combining diacritics over the characters. They
work fine in regular text in Writer, but not in the formula. However, I
found a workaround. Using "breve" in front of the ones with the short
mark and "overline" on the ones with the macron the result is just
about perfect. Close enough that no one will notice that the breve and
overline in the formula are not exactly the same as the combining
diacritics built into the font.
I just have two small issues left:
1) The spacing between lines in the stack is too great. The regular
text in the document is set at 14 points fixed leading, and it would be
great to be able to set the lines in the stack to the same. But it's a
formula, so if the leading doesn't match exactly it's not the end of
the world. But at the moment the lines look like about 20 points, which
looks odd.
2) The AU on the bottom line is kerned too far apart. I tried setting
the kerning with character formatting but, like the other formatting
things I tried, regular text formatting does not work inside a formula.
Is there a way to adjust letter spacing in a formula?
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