Issue 118166 - Letter(s) following numerals are displayed in regular font instead of italic font
Summary: Letter(s) following numerals are displayed in regular font instead of italic ...
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 45689
Alias: None
Product: Math
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.3
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: michael.ruess
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-12 17:02 UTC by lapsap7+ooo
Modified: 2017-05-20 09:46 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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Shows the discrepancy between 2x and 2 x (1.88 KB, image/png)
2011-06-12 17:08 UTC, lapsap7+ooo 		no flags Details
Too much space between numeral and variable (5.10 KB, image/png)
2011-06-12 17:16 UTC, lapsap7+ooo 		no flags Details
Difference between within Math object and without (11.42 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2011-06-12 18:20 UTC, lapsap7+ooo 		no flags Details
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Description lapsap7+ooo 2011-06-12 17:02:23 UTC 
If we type the following markup:
2x
the letter x is displayed in regular font instead of italic font.  But if we type
2 x
the letter x is now displayed in italics as it should be.

Since Math markup is designed to read similar to English (whenever possible) but since 2x and 2 x have different effects, this must be a bug.

BTW: the result shown by 2 x has too much space between 2 and x -- compare it with something like Fx and the effect is obvious.
Comment 1 lapsap7+ooo 2011-06-12 17:08:27 UTC 
Created attachment 76608 [details]
Shows the discrepancy between 2x and 2 x
Comment 2 lapsap7+ooo 2011-06-12 17:16:29 UTC 
Created attachment 76609 [details]
Too much space between numeral and variable

Should this be filed as a separate bug?
Comment 3 Regina Henschel 2011-06-12 17:17:40 UTC 
Known problem, see issue 45689.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 45689 ***
Comment 4 lapsap7+ooo 2011-06-12 17:20:24 UTC 
Forgot to write that this "discovery" was found by a user in the forum:
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=35382
Comment 5 Regina Henschel 2011-06-12 17:29:46 UTC 
The space is not different, but it looks different because one is italic and
the other not and the formula editor doesn't know kerning. So I don't consider
this as bug.
Comment 6 lapsap7+ooo 2011-06-12 18:20:49 UTC 
Created attachment 76610 [details]
Difference between within Math object and without

(In reply to comment #5)
> The space is not different, but it looks different because one is italic and
> the other not and the formula editor doesn't know kerning. So I don't consider
> this as bug.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, but I notice that the same expression is shown differently in "pure text" (cf the attached OO Write document).
Comment 7 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann 2012-06-13 12:22:45 UTC 
getting rid of value "enhancement" for field "severity".
For enhancement the field "issue type" shall be used.
Comment 8 Du Jing 2012-06-19 05:39:48 UTC 
suggest owner close it,because 45689 can tracking the problem.
Comment 9 lapsap7+ooo 2012-06-19 19:35:56 UTC 
This bug had already been marked as duplicate a long time ago. But in comment 5, Regina had said that she didn't consider this as a bug, which made me quite confused.