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Re: OpenOffice Math and sum symbol



On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:16:21PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> I noticed that Open Office 1.1 Math works bad with sum sign: if i
> enter the formula:
> from{x} to{y} i
> the sum sign isn't displayed correctly, but a pair of inverted
> question marks (?) appears:
> ?x?yi
> 
> I did some reading and this seem to be a common problem.

(1) Specify the sum symbol? It's missing from the snippet you quote, the
full spec should be:

    sum from{x} to{y} i

(2) Use LaTeX if you can -- wrestling with OpenOffice's formula editor
easily wastes a lot of time...

Best regards, Jan
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