Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 93025
Text formating in Equation Editor improvement: GUI as in regular text window
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:36:04 UTC
Currently the OOo equation editor allows text formatting to be applied to the entire equation. Often, one may want to format a specific part of the equation, such as making a specific variable red to draw attention to it, or to use a bold V for velocity, to differentiate it from V (volume) and v (specific volume). There are many other examples where formating individual letters in the text editor would be useful, as opposed to formating the entire equation.
This one seems to me as invalid. Try color green{vec F} = color red {m} cdot color blue vec {bold {a}} See the page 14 of the formula how to -> http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/formula/Formula_HowTo_1_0.pdf See also issue 5156.
> See the page 14 of the formula how to That's the problem right there. The user needs to read at least the first 14 pages of a PDF document to change the colour of text. The equation editor syntax should be used for changing the equation, not the markup. Just like in the regular window of Writer one can highlight text and select an appropriate colour, so should the equation editor have this ability. I am changing the title of this bug to reflect the fact that text formatting is possible, but not ideal. Thank you for pointing that out, Troodon.
You're welcome! :-) Now this issue seems to be related to issue 90828 :-)
Reassigned to requirements.
Issue 5156 is asking for more colours, issue 90828 is asking to add the existing colours to the context menu. This bug started off asking for the ability to add colours, which would make it invalid. I suggest marking this bug as invalid. I have researched equation markup in OOo and I have filed this bug suggesting change: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=93098 Sorry for the noise. Please mark as invalid.