Re: openoffice math question

From: Jim Fischer (jfischer_link5809_at_now.here.com)
Date: 11/25/03 

Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 16:20:49 -0600

Thor Bjarnason wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If there is a better form for which to post this, please inform me.

See,

     http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#newsgroups

> I am using openoffice as an alternative to latex, but I am running into
> a simple problem. I want to write something like: "M^'_2" so that I
> get a superscript "prime" and a subscript "2". In latex what I typed
> above looks great after compilation. I want openoffice to look like
> this. I want this variable to appear in a numbered equation and then
> again within the text. The problems I am getting are:
>
> 1) inside of an equation I can get the super and subscript to stand
> above and below each other, but the "prime" is way too small.

FWIW, with OpenOffice 1.0 I can specify the font size for a block of
super/subscripted text like this:

    M^{size 10 '}_{2} 

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Jim
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