Issue 20257

there are just 3 ways i know to do this

1. call the formel editor and typ-> hat R <-or hat r or any other 
letter you like and you get the letter with a ^ on it 
2 second is just type hat r in your document select this text and 
click on the tool bar -> insert object -> formel editor.

the other way will be by looking for an font with this letters and 
insert this letter as special character

reassigned to jw

Thanks for the info on the workaround.

What if you have Cu as in C with u being a subscript? I can't seem to
apply the formulas to this.

What I meant is it removes the subscript attribute on the u

<offtopic>I also am having trouble moving this object to the beginning
of the line. I can only move it vertically.</offtopic>

So you don't waste your time, I figured it out:

overline {C sub u} sup  2

But the questions are: 

* Why isn't there a menu to do this quickly?
* Why are superscripts and subscripts lost when going into the formula
editor. Shouldn't they be maintained?

The issue for carrying over the subscript is obviously for another
bug. I just realized it would probably be handy if A/B were converted
to "A over B" when opening the formula editor. Is there a bug on all this?

Just to clarify since I got a bit off-topic: This bug is about GUI in
the regular context menu for doing some of the most common formula
things automatically, or at least a context menu item that says "Open
formula editor" or something when something is highlighted.

hi netdragon, 
fist: please open a single issue for any bug.
i will set this to enhancement: 
Please provide ability to put a character above another or make it 
more accessible -> Why isn't there a menu to do this quickly? 


please open a issue for the other bugs you mentioned, because will not 
geht a mail if you post this here, after i reassigned this issue

changed issue typ e to ENHANCEMENT 
reassigned to bh

I'll see how this is handled before filing new bugs because I believe
a generic way of handling this using a context menu entry would
suffice for all issues mentioned if Formula Editor's import works
correctly.

Select text and:

Context menu -> Hat
                Overline
                Fraction
                etc
                Open in Formula Editor...

Where the selected text would be then placed into the formula method
you selected.

It's also an issue with writing periodic decimals in main text as stated in Bug
23764 for the formula editor.

(Sorry - remove my last comment - I was at the wrong bug.)

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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html

To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements". 

Duplicate bug

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 7449 ***