Issue 33989 - feature requests
Summary: feature requests
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Math
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 680m51
Hardware: All Windows Server 2003
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: bettina.haberer
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Keywords: oooqa
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-09-09 02:21 UTC by hflees
Modified: 2004-09-14 21:56 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description hflees 2004-09-09 02:21:48 UTC 
Hi,

Yesterday, my wife asked me how to insert formula into Writer. I told her go to 
Insert -> Object -> Formula. She complained when she entered delta (change 
triangle symbol) she got %DELTA. I have not tried formula, so I tried. Indeed 
there are few things that can be improved.

(1) Make the formula interface more intuitive. A good example is the popular 
text editor. WYSIWYG formula editing. I think it is not a good idea to ask 
people to type formula (command) of a formula. Perhaps the formula of the 
formula can be enabled (for advanced user) and disabled for novice user.

(2) Appropriate naming, i.e. Selection and Catalog. Perhaps change “Selection†
to “Formula†and “Catalog†to “Symbolâ€.

(3) “Tools -> Catalog/Symbol†and “View -> Selection/Formula†should be merged, 
either under View or Tools

(4) Make Selection/Formula and Catalog/Symbol toolbox dockable like other 
toolbar.

Thanks for making this software great.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2004-09-09 06:56:15 UTC 
reassigned to BH.
Comment 2 lohmaier 2004-09-14 21:55:41 UTC 
unfortunately, collective issues can not be handled properly.
Please file seperate issues for each of your suggestions.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/basic_rules.html#one_per_issue

All of your points are valid issues on their own, but unfortunately not in one
single issue. I have to close this one as invalid and have to ask you to file
seperate issues.

Thanks for your comprehension and for supporting OOo!

(reagrding point 1 I have some doubt that this is possible at all. You can enter
simple formulas "as is" , e.g. enter "a + b = c" and you're done. (you can enter
this as regular text, select it and then choose insert Formula, it will be then
converted to a formula object) but when the formula gets more complicated some
kind of abstraction ("command language") is necessary. How would you enter
"square root" without using the commands?)
Comment 3 lohmaier 2004-09-14 21:56:33 UTC 
closing issue (collective issue)