It is common to write wave functions as ψ and ψ*. In Libreoffice Mathematics I am not able to write a star as superscript. Is there a solution for this problem?
You can simply quote the asterisk like in %psi %psi sup "*" .
Might you tell me in return how you got the psi shaped as you posted it?
He simply used a plain Greek ψ (Unicode 3C8), you can see it if you look into the HTML code of the page.
@gabix: Thanks. I got that. However, that character copied into my ‘Math’ was automatically “reshaped”.in te same way as %psi is producing. None of the document types under LibO preserved the appearance.It is a matter of the font (font replacement?), not one of the code point. I looked for alternative fonts but didn’t find the approproate one. On the otheter hand my system should have the font. Or is it just accessible to Firefox?
As for any code point the glyphs for U+03C8 may look different depending on the font. Ok It should have been clear: The relevant differece was only because the character was rendered based on a font with serifs while it was shown without serifs here. Banal thing I made too many words about. Sorry!
Then it is what should be. Fonts here are defined by the respective CSS(s), fonts in formulas produced in Math are what is defined in Format → Fonts.
Thanks very much. The answer --simply quote the asterisk like in %psi %psi sup “*” – works very well for me.