Rick Bilonick wrote:
Thanks but I don't see Tools/Symbols when I'm in the formula editor. I
do see Tools/Catalog. But I don't see that this does much more than just
typing, for example, %mu, in the formula panel. The problem is that when
the document is converted to a .doc and then opened in MS Word, all the
Greek letters (and some other symbols) are missing. Other things like
summations show up but not the Greek letters. A similar thing happens if
I use the OpenSymbols font or the Standard Symbol L font in the text.
When opened in MS Word, the wrong character appears. If I had typed mu
in either of these fonts, when opened in MS Word, a different Greek
letter or math symbol will appear (even though on the screen in OOo it
shows a mu). However, if I use the Symbol font (I have to type in the
work "Symbol" - it doesn't appear in the pull-down list of fonts), then
what I see in OOo on the screen and print out from OOo under Linux shows
up in MS Word too. All I want to do is have people using MS Word to see
the correct Greek letters/symbols that I'm typing in OOo.
I do see in the Tools/Catalog/Symbol panel it allows you to modify the
characters but I cannot type in Symbol like I can for fonts for regular
text.
I think your problem might be in your use of the standard Microsoft
Symbol font. This uses now outdated technology in which characters
appear in that font equated by position to more normal characters in a
standard Latin-1 (ANSI) font. However such symbol fonts were difficult
to use, especially with the higher values as character codes do not
always properly convert between different operating systems or different
character old-style character sets on the same operating system.
All symbol characters are now assigned their own values in the Unicode
character set (though they certainly don't appear in every font). You
might try globally replacing the symbols in your document within MS Word
with corresponding Unicode characters from a non-symbol font. Then you
should be able to transform between MS-Word and Open Office and between
Windows and Linux as you wish without any changing of characters.
However, then you will indeed lose the ability to have your characters
properly appear in older systems.
Jallan
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