Re: OpenOffice Math and sum symbol

[Paolo Pantaleo <paolopantaleo@gmail.com>]

2005/8/25, Jan T. Kim <jtk@cmp.uea.ac.uk>:
> 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.
Hum... not so common maybe :)

> (1) Specify the sum symbol? It's missing from the snippet you quote, the
> full spec should be:
> 
>     sum from{x} to{y} i
Maybe i should know this... but on the other hand the Math button
didn't put "sum" text
> 
> (2) Use LaTeX if you can -- wrestling with OpenOffice's formula editor
> easily wastes a lot of time...
> 
hum... it sounds challenging :P

PAolo