Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 22309
possibility to anchor a formula in a textbox
Last modified: 2016-05-23 14:25:22 UTC
It would be very nice if it would be possible to anchor a formula in a textbox in the presenter in the same way as it's possible to anchor a formula in the text in the writer. In the writer, after creating a formula, you can choose Anchor->As Character In the presenter, this is not possible
Reassigned to Bettina.
I will donate $50 USD to the OpenOffice Team and $50 USD to the specific developer (or donate $100 USD to the OpenOffice Team if a specific developer cannot be identified) if this enhancement to OO Impress can be properly implemented and included into the builds within the next 8 months.
*** Issue 22309 has been confirmed by votes. ***
Is there anyone working on this issue? In my opinion, OpenOffice.org can't really be used for presentations containing more than two or three formulas as long as there isn't a possibility to anchor formulas "as character". Also, I assume that this issue does not only occur under Linux. And it is definitely still present in 2.0.1.
I'm also willing to donate for this issue. Or can someone give a outline how to implement it (for someone with good programming knowledge but no OO). Then I would do it myself.
I take it that no one is working on this feature. I am trying to use Impress to make lecture notes for engineering courses, and being able to anchor a formula in a textbox would certainly make alot of sense. It is crippling not having this feature for any real mathematical presentation.
Why does this still has not target milestone? Like the last comment says: this problem makes it impossible to use it for scientific presentations with a lot of formulas. Please give it a soon target milestone or give us a pointer how to fix it ourselves.
It should be possible to insert an equation anywhere in a line and have it behave like a very wide symbol, e.g., if text is inserted to the left of the equation, the equation should automatically shift to the right, and any text to the right of it should also shift, wrapping to the next line if necessary. When an equation is inserted into a presentation slide, the reasonable default behavior is that of an inline object, although it makes sense to also allow users to create floating equations. I'd also like to see automatic numbering of equations. Although it would require minimal effort to convert PowerPoint into something that meets the needs of scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, Microsoft has never had the slightest interest in doing this. There is no need for OOo to adopt the same attitude. In fact, improved support for mathematics in presentations would be an excellent way for OOo to distinguish itself from the Evil Empire. Copying rdanse's idea, I'm also willing to donate $50 to the development team if a solution to this problem can be implemented and released by the end of 2008.
Another year has passed with no action on this. I'd would still love to see a solution, a practical workaround, or some guidance as to how I can implement a fix myself.
I have OOo version 3.1 and still no changes... Really, it is very strange that there is no such possibility.
Actually, it isn't strange at all. The OOo designers seem to have mindlessly replicated most of the deficiencies of Microsoft Office.
Hello, many people are angry because old bugs are not addressed. The opinion shared by a lot of people around me is that OO is bloated and buggy... nevertheless it is pretty useful ! (and I would not be able to program such a thing in a better way in my lifetime...) In this case, I wonder if the problem is just be that "bh" is not working any more on OO. For example, in issue 29989 (which is also assigned to bh) I signaled two times that it is a duplicate of this one. It would be very quick to mark issue 29989 as a duplicate of 22309. However, it has not been done. As a consequence, I think that bh is not active in OO any more. But I don't know how to be sure of this.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
Hello, I just add a "me too" to the statement: "OpenOffice.org can't really be used for presentations containing more than two or three formulas as long as there isn't a possibility to anchor formulas "as character"." from aschweer, 2006 ... which was 5 jears ago! It is astonishing that a feature which is simply necessary for the use in most scientific areas apparently gets no priority.
*** Issue 88185 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 29989 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Obviously a lot of other users have the same problem for a very long time. What can be done to increase the priority on this issue? I use Impress for my lectures in electronics with lots of formulas inside the text. This requested feature would be extremely beneficial. Is anyone actually working on this? Thanks!
(In reply to Lothar from comment #18) > Is anyone actually working on this? > Thanks! No, there is not anyone known to be working on this. It is not clear what difficulties there may have been about this from 2003-2011. Whatever the case, no one has taken on this issue since Apache OpenOffice was formed. The original assignee is not a contributor at AOO. I confirm that there is no Anchor provision in the context menu of inserted formulas in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 Impress.
Extend applicability to all PC platforms and AOO 4.1.2.