Hi there
In previous versions of LibreOffice/OpenOffice (as of ~Jun 2011) provided a symbol catalog such that when using "%alpha" or "%rho" in a formula yielded an greek letter in italics. This is consistent with the styling used in most high-quality textbooks, Latex, etc and was a good default behaviour.
Now, for some reason, with LO 3.5.4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04, it appears that all math symbols are coming out in non-italics, which LOOKS TERRIBLE.
Because I have a large document that I've previously written, I need a way to change my math symbol catalog so that ALL greek letters are in italics.
Also, I need to change their font from "OpenSymbol" to "Liberation Serif", since the OpenSymbol typeface seems to be lacking some key metrics, since my "%alpha" character lacks correct baseline information, so the format of an equation like "1 over %alpha" looks all wrong.
Any suggestions?
You can set the fonts to use in Math formulas using Menu "Format" -> "Fonts...".
LibreOffice is made available by volunteers around the globe, backed by a charitable Foundation. Please support our efforts: Your donation helps us to deliver a better product!
Asked: 2012-07-18 10:20:56 +0200
Seen: 1,437 times
Last updated: Feb 21
Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license.
@tohuwawohu: you can't set the font for Math formulas in this way for symbols like %alpha, %omega, etc, since the symbol catalog includes its own definitions of the font and style of special symbols, which overrides the main font definition. So unfortunately this doesn't help me (as far as I can tel
jdpipe ( 2012-07-20 07:15:55 +0200 )editOh, i see - you're right. Is this your bug report? I've just put myself on its CC list.
tohuwawohu ( 2012-07-20 08:06:42 +0200 )editThat's right, that's my bug report. No responses yet, but let's see
jdpipe ( 2012-07-21 07:34:56 +0200 )edit