Issue 20739

Summary:	Can't add percent symbol (%) to formula
Product:	Math	Reporter:	gyaroslav <gd_666>
Component:	code	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	ACCEPTED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P5 (lowest)	CC:	issues, rb.henschel
Version:	OOo 1.1	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description gyaroslav 2003-10-06 06:43:59 UTC

If i'm write % in formula it's dont displayed in OLE window in document. It's 
should be bug, I know.
Maybe it happens because parser thinking i'm trying to write special symbol 
(keyword)  or comment. I'm surf out a help system and don't found how i can 
write percent symbols in my formulas. Where is should be some control keyword 
like "%percent" to show percent in formula.

Comment 1 askoning 2003-10-06 09:14:40 UTC

Confirmed in 1.1/Linux and changed priority to P3.

Workaround (and perhaps fix?):
- Tools > Catalog
- choose Special, click Edit
- in the Symbol box, enter 'percent' (or 'pct', or whatever you want),
without the quotes
- in the grid, select the percentage sign (top row)
- click Add, OK, Close

you can now use %percent (%pct, ...) to enter the % sign.

Comment 2 Regina Henschel 2003-10-06 21:55:26 UTC

Put it into quotation marks. Example 15"%"=0.15

Comment 3 michael.ruess 2003-10-16 10:43:16 UTC

As Regina mentioned, use the quotes for this.

MRU->TL: Would be a "nice to have", if the parser could recognize
expressions like 10% by itself (more intuitive than 10"%"). So please
implement for successor of OO 2.0.

Comment 4 gyaroslav 2003-10-17 06:45:24 UTC

If i'm use 15"%" then the 15 will be in italic style and percent sign 
will be in normal style. It is logical error. If I'm use 
Special>Edit>Symbol box, enter 'percent' than all works fine. How not 
advanced people should do such things? Can you place a percent sign 
on palette and place %percent keyword than user press this?

Comment 5 thomas.lange 2003-10-17 15:10:19 UTC