On Thu December 15 2005 01:49, + Paul King wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > I have a little problem with your OOO version 2 editor under Windows XP. > > If I type > 3x^2 > in the equation editor, I get the formula without the x italicised (not > good). If I type > 3 x^2 > in the editor with a space between the "3" and the "x", the x is > italicised. However, there is a space between the 3 and the x in the > formula. > If I type > vwxyz > without spaces in the editor, all the letters are italicised. > > Am I the only one who sees these inconsistencies as a bug? In display math, > any ALL letters ought to be italicised, to distinguish them from numbers > and symbols (such as + - etc), which are not usually in italics. This is a > standard that goes back to LaTeX (accepted by the American Mathematical > Association), and is in every math textbook since antiquity. Since I am a > math teacher, I want/need to observe those standards too.
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Thu December 15 2005 10:35, Andy Lewis wrote: > Matej Cepl wrote: > > Paul King wrote: > >>Am I the only one who sees these inconsistencies as a bug? > > > > Maybe not, but probably everybody who saw it before were so lazy, that > > they never filed an issue on http://qa.openoffice.org, so programmers > > probably don't know that it is wrong. > > > > Matej > > Hello Paul and Matej > > It has been brought to their attention - I filed this as Issue 58747, > but it has been closed as the developers see it as a duplicate of Issue > 45689. I am going to transfer my votes and comments to issue 45689; can > I suggest that you vote for this issue, and add your own comments if you > have time. > > The "target milestone" has been set at "OOo later" which is not promising! > > Thanks > Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
