How to caption formulas without wrapping to formula width

[ausairman]

Hi Everyone,

This was previously posted as a bug by someone here http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/l ... 06393.html although unfortunately the question was poorly worded and the response thus didn’t really answer the question.

When writing formulas, the most common layout is that the formula is written on its own line without text wrapped around it. The caption is usually placed underneath the formula and also on its own line. Therefore, the default feature of Writer to stick the caption in a frame with the object being captioned isn’t particularly useful. When I try to then stretch the frame to the length of the screen so that the caption does not wrap to the width of the function, the function is stretched out and made extremely large. This is not good either.

I can overcome this by adding a caption, then cut-and-pasting it out of the frame and below the equation. This is cumbersome and dirty, and I’d like a better fix. The other alternative would be to stretch the frame and then resize the equation in the frame, but unfortunately resizing of formula objects isn’t allowed inside the frame for some reason. I’d appreciate it if someone who has successfully written scientific reports/articles in Writer could outline how they overcame this problem, and if there is some feature within Writer that can allow you to let captions take up the width of the page even when the captioned object does not.

Arman

[Hagar Delest]

There is indeed a problem with captioning formulas: [Issue] Formula resized with Caption. Issue 51453.

In such case, I prefer the autotext with a table, see: [Solved] Refering to image with caption.

Please add '[Solved]' at the beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[ausairman]

Thanks for the heads up. According to the issue log this will be fixed by version 3.4. I've switched back to MS office for now but I'll check back regularly in the hope that this will be fixed. I don't quite understand how lib office got to version 3 without working captions, but I suppose we should be grateful that this software exists at all, given that it's free. Thanks for the support