Re: OpenOffice Math and sum symbol

[Joachim Fahnenmüller <jfahnenmueller@web.de>]

Hi Paolo,

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:44:33PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> 2005/8/25, Jan T. Kim <jtk@cmp.uea.ac.uk>:
> > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:16:21PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
(...)
> 
> > (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

There are two different buttons, look at the tooltips: The one showing only
'sigma x' produces 'sum', the other one produces 'from to', i. e. the lower and
upper boundary. These can be applied to the sum, product, integral, ... signs, so
it makes sense that there are these different buttons. (Only the icon is a bit
misleading.)
> > 
> > (2) Use LaTeX if you can -- wrestling with OpenOffice's formula editor
> > easily wastes a lot of time...
> > 
> hum... it sounds challenging :P

Latex makes sense if you work with math formulas regularly. 
What I like with OOO math: You can use the menu if you are a beginner or for
things you don't use often; for things you use more often you can learn the
keyword and type it.
> 
> PAolo

HTH
-- 
Joachim Fahnenmüller