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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Cannot resize formula / change text size | ||||||||
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| Product: | Math | Reporter: | Unknown <non-migrated> | ||||||
| Component: | ui | Assignee: | bettina.haberer | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | issues@sw <issues> | ||||||
| Severity: | Trivial | ||||||||
| Priority: | P4 | CC: | issues, thomas.lange | ||||||
| Version: | OOo 1.0.1 | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | PC | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux, all | ||||||||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||||
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||||
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Description
Unknown
2002-11-01 07:24:33 UTC
It is voluntarily that formulas can not be resized. That it was possible to resize them via the dialog is fixed in newer versions. Currently I'm not aware of any plans to change this behavior. Why do you want this to do? Since allowing to scale formulas manually will usually result in scaling both axis in different ways and thus deforming the text and symbols of the formula more or less, I would consider that a major nuisance. You dont want your summation character to look differently in different formulas. Created attachment 3451 [details]
Word XP equation examples
What if you would like to copy an equation from a document into a presentation? If the object could not be readily resized a user would have to open the equation and play with the fonts. Enabling the resize handles seems like an easy option to me. If I wanted formatting to be difficult I would open emacs and start using Latex :) But to validate your point Word XP hardly handles resizing equations correctly, but it does only adjusts the spacing of the characters not the size of the characters themselves. Perhaps if the proportions of the formula were fixed... I personaly even don't like the change of spacing since it looks ugly if you do this by a large extend. However if you like to upgrade to the developer 643 build ypou can copy the formula to the presentation and inm the context menu of the formula you can select the "Break" entry. After that the presentation allows you to scale & turn the object as much as you like. ^_~ It's a new feature in Impress. It's not a regular formula anymore though. Thus useful editing is quite limited. Created attachment 3501 [details]
Example where resizing is useful, example of 'break' nasty behaviour.
I have looked at the 'break' function for impress and it seems to offer all the nastiness of the Word XP solution while removing the formula functionality. :( I think OpenOffice should provide maximum flexibility and allow formulas to be resized. I also think the 'break' function is a cool feature and also should be kept. Attached is an example where resizing the formula (in a document) could be useful. If scaling of formula objects would be allowed currently it would be behave rather similar to what what happens if you do that in Impress or the same way as it is done with text boxes. Having the spaces between the characters grow/shrink would be a new feature. TL->BH: Since this is a feature request I pass this on to you. Note: It should behave as it does in Word 2000. It has not functioned with Word 2002 on FT's computer. Yes, that problem needs a solution. But I had to change the prio, because working and creating a doc is possible, there is also no data loss (these are prio 1 criteria). This issue is double to 5266. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 5266 *** Closed as duplicate to 5266. |