On Calc there is now an option to use the English function names: I think an option to use English names for Greek characters on Math expressions will be useful also, specially for those coming from LaTeX.
Isn't that the same than http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115956 ?
(In reply to comment #1) > Isn't that the same than http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=115956 > ? No. It is just about the possibility to use, on a Spanish intall, %alpha instead of %alfa, or %mu instead of %my, for example. People coming from LaTeX will be thankful...
> No. It is just about the possibility to use, on a Spanish intall, %alpha > instead of %alfa, or %mu instead of %my, for example. People coming from LaTeX > will be thankful... I always use english names for greek letters in OO and LO and have no problem with that. More over %alpha and %mu works for me but russian variants: %альфа and %мю don't work. I think english names for greek letters is only good way.
Created attachment 42494 [details] Screenshot for RGB Screenshot with english names for greek letters.
Created attachment 42496 [details] Greek character names on Spanish LibO build At least the Spanish build have all the Greek character names translated... "%alpha" do not work :(
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The feature requested is not implemented on 3.5 beta2.
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(In reply to RGB from comment #0) > On Calc there is now an option to use the English function names: I think an > option to use English names for Greek characters on Math expressions will be > useful also, specially for those coming from LaTeX. Hello, if you still there, please answer. Doing that may be complicated. But there is an easier solotion: a greek command to insert greek letters. If it works for you I'll implement it.
(In reply to dante19031999 from comment #11) > (In reply to RGB from comment #0) > > On Calc there is now an option to use the English function names: I think an > > option to use English names for Greek characters on Math expressions will be > > useful also, specially for those coming from LaTeX. > > Hello, if you still there, please answer. > Doing that may be complicated. > But there is an easier solotion: a greek command to insert greek letters. > If it works for you I'll implement it. It depends on how it's implemented, but yes, it sounds interesting. A really neat feature in LyX (a LaTeX front-end) is that you have "sequential keyboard shortcuts," in the sense that a first keyboard shortcut enables some "mode" and the second one does an action. In the case of Greek characters, in LyX you first press Alt-M to enter "math mode," then G to enter "Greek mode" and then a character (a for alpha, b for beta, etc.). I think that that kind of "sequential shortcuts" are not possible in LibreOffice, but a simplified version of them, or something else, could be really useful. This may even open a road for more options. Thanks for your interest!
(In reply to RGB from comment #12) > It depends on how it's implemented, but yes, it sounds interesting. > > A really neat feature in LyX (a LaTeX front-end) is that you have > "sequential keyboard shortcuts," in the sense that a first keyboard shortcut > enables some "mode" and the second one does an action. In the case of Greek > characters, in LyX you first press Alt-M to enter "math mode," then G to > enter "Greek mode" and then a character (a for alpha, b for beta, etc.). I > think that that kind of "sequential shortcuts" are not possible in > LibreOffice, but a simplified version of them, or something else, could be > really useful. This may even open a road for more options. > > Thanks for your interest! The solution I shall implement: char charname. Wich shall be valid for greek letters and also others. It shall also support char hex HEXCODE and %_HEXCODE. It should be ready for 7.1. About the lyx stuff it sounds very nice, I'll study how to do it. But I recommend to create a new feature request. If you don't mind I'm gonna copy-paste your text. Whatch: Bug 134815
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Removing Assignee. No action done in a while
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #15) > Removing Assignee. No action done in a while Please, ignore this for 2 or 3 years. It depends on the opensymbol 2, wich means a lot of time.
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I’m adding a simple solution that would allow English names together with localized names (i.e. if the name in not in localized names, it will look for it in the English names). In the long run we should do way with all of this and use the proper Unicode math code points.
Khaled Hosny committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/25b2e4a4e2f9b2191bdd80cca5a015e5b6089399 tdf#32415: Always accept English symbol names in math It will be available in 24.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
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