Issue 23131 - Kerning for subscripts of italic characters
Summary: Kerning for subscripts of italic characters
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: Math
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: PC All
: P4 Trivial with 12 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
: 30562 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2003-12-03 08:26 UTC by khbellgardt
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:54 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Example how it looks and should look (10.29 KB, application/octet-stream)
2003-12-03 08:28 UTC, khbellgardt 		no flags Details
Arbitarily adjusting location of elements ? (reduce spacing) (26.58 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2008-12-22 10:08 UTC, toresvn 		no flags Details
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Description khbellgardt 2003-12-03 08:26:57 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.

At nice-to-have feature would also be to have an option in the dialog
Format->Spacing->Category->Indexes for setting the horizontal (default) spacing
for subsscripts and superscripts.
Comment 1 khbellgardt 2003-12-03 08:28:12 UTC 
Created attachment 11711 [details]
Example how it looks and should look
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2003-12-03 11:43:00 UTC 
MRU->TL: I think, this could be a cool "nice to have". We could eye
this for the successor of OO 2.0; what do you think?
Comment 3 guido.pinkernell 2004-02-03 15:23:47 UTC 
I think you should eye this. Couldn't you make it earlier than post2.0?

It starts already with often used function names like f_t.
The space between the index and the italic f is just too large.
Comment 4 thomas.lange 2004-02-18 09:24:10 UTC 
Probably not. There are already some features and quite a lot of other more
important fixes/enhancements to be done for linguistic and Writer API...
Sorry!
But I will keep an eye on it. The chances are very slim though...
Comment 5 lohmaier 2004-09-17 00:55:36 UTC 
*** Issue 30562 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2008-07-01 17:18:37 UTC 
*** Issue 91130 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 macias 2008-07-01 17:46:00 UTC 
I really doubt my report is a duplicate, but just in case:

Better alignment of apostrophe:
try
w'

' is so far away from w that it looks like two symbols instead of one (I sense 
of meaning).
Comment 8 toresvn 2008-12-22 10:08:34 UTC 
Created attachment 58961 [details]
Arbitarily adjusting location of elements ? (reduce spacing)
Comment 9 toresvn 2008-12-22 10:14:20 UTC 
The problem occurs not only in horizontal position! Please see the following
link: (official OO.o forum)

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=12708
or see the 2nd attachment (this issue, Mon Dec 22).

1. spacing between italic and nitalc characters
2. subscripts / superscripts cause the waste of space in paper
3. underbrace causes the waste of space in paper
... etc.

In comparison with MS Equation Editor (or MathType), OO.o Math is in lack of the
ability to 'move' elements arbitrarily; see examples in the link.