2008/8/22 Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > From http://hypertextbook.com/physics/mechanics/velocity/ : > > "Speed gets the symbol v (italic) and velocity gets the symbol v > (boldface)."
That is specific to the textbook, and is not universally recognized so far as I understand. These concepts were developed and made widespread long before the ability to make bold and italic type was possible to the layman (think pencil and paper, not printing press). That is why every book uses a different format. However, interestingly enough, I am having a hard time finding examples where velocity, volume, and specific volume are all used in the same place. > Note that OpenOffice.org (like almost every word processing or desktop > publishing program available today) uses Unicode, so all characters > available in Unicode are available to you, plus any other non-Unicode > characters unique to special symbol fonts. This is true, regardless of your > operating system. > > A explicitly bold v is Unicode symbol U+1D42F. An explicitly italic v is > Unicode symbol U+1D463. See http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf . These > Unicode bold and italic variants are supposed to be used only for > mathemtatical and technical purposes and are not available in most fonts. I > suggest using George Douros' Unicode Symbol font for all your technical > work, if possible. It is available at http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ . In any case, the OOo equation editor cannot define text formating for individual characters. I did, however, find this site: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/search.htm Which led me to Unicode Character 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V WITH HOOK' (U+01B2) "Ʋ" -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
