Issue 23133

Summary:

Kerning of subscripts of italic characters

Product:

Writer

Reporter:

khbellgardt <bellgardt>

Component:

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

CONFIRMED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

Normal

Priority:

CC:

elish, issues

Version:

OOo 1.1

Target Milestone:

---

Hardware:

OS:

All

Issue Type:

ENHANCEMENT

Latest Confirmation in:

4.1.0-dev

Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
How it looks and how it should look	none
Document demonstrating kerning problem in OOo2.4 writer and math	none

Description khbellgardt 2003-12-03 08:44:28 UTC

At present subscripts and superscripts are shown at the same horizontal position
relative to the indexed character. This looks well for normal fonts. But for
italic fonts the subscript should be shifted left to have the same distance to
the indexed letter as the superscript.

Comment 1 khbellgardt 2003-12-03 08:45:05 UTC

Created attachment 11712 [details]
How it looks and how it should look

Comment 2 mci 2003-12-15 11:25:47 UTC

reassigned to bh

Comment 3 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:11:17 UTC

OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised is currently 'Unconfirmed' pending review, but has not been
updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
or consider trying the new OOo 3 BETA (still in testing):
http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/
 
Please report back the outcome so this Issue may be Closed or Progressed as
necessary - otherwise it may be Resolved as Invalid in the future. You may also
wish to search for (and note) any duplicates of this Issue that may have
advanced further by checking the Issue Tracker:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi
 
Many thanks,
Andrew
 
Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of:
~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~
http://marketing.openoffice.org/3.0/announcementbeta.html

Comment 4 khbellgardt 2008-05-16 07:57:49 UTC

Created attachment 53696 [details]
Document demonstrating kerning problem in OOo2.4 writer and math

Comment 5 khbellgardt 2008-05-16 08:06:34 UTC

The issue can still be found in OOo2.4 as you can verify by opening the attached
document. The problem is not only found in normal text but even worse in
OOo-Math. This is shown in the second attached document. 

For italic fonts, the big spacing between a letter in normal position and a
subscript looks terrible and the reader will not recognize them as a unit. In
scientific papers you can find many of such expressions. The bad looking of
those OOo-documents is a true know-out criterion for OOo compared to MS Office.

Comment 6 khbellgardt 2008-05-16 09:02:25 UTC

Hey, as you may guess I meant "knock-out criterion"

Comment 7 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:51:43 UTC

To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".

Comment 8 misbirdcemu 2010-10-23 15:33:10 UTC

Created attachment 72533

Comment 9 Edwin Sharp 2014-04-09 10:01:00 UTC

Confirmed with
AOO410m14(Build:9760)  -  Rev. 1585624
2014-04-08_04:11:10 - Rev. 1585644
Debian