[Solved+Issue] Variables not appearing in italics

[Mr-GC]

Hi,

I'm using NeoOffice, hoping someone here can help me! If I type the following well-known formula into Math...

x = {-b +- sqrt{b^2-4ac}} over {2a}

then it appears more or less how I expect, but there is a problem with how variables are italicised. The x and the two bs appear as they should, but "4ac" and "2a" appear non-italicised. I've tried adding spaces between them (when using the templates, mainly), but can't make it work.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Graham

[acknak]

Math does not recognize tokens like "4ac" and "2a" as multiplied terms--how could it?

You have to separate the terms yourself: 2{a}, 4{a}{c}, or just 4{a}c.

[Horus]

I'm using OOO 3.3 and this problem is here too.
However, I found that the problem can be avoided by writing like this:
x = {-b +- sqrt{b^2-4 ac}} over {2 a}
That is a space after the numerals.

This is certainly a bug because Fx shows variables as italics, while 2x doesn't.

[Horus]

For the record, bug filed at http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118166

[RGB]

Since 3.3, you can use "nospace" to eliminate the extra space. Compare this:

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nospace{2 a b}
newline
2 a b

[Horus]

Yes, nospace does the trick. Thanks.
Before the bug is fixed, I suppose this is the only workaround.