Cambria Math font bugs

[Grant Robertson]

I am not exactly sure where this font came from but since the only thing
I have installed after re-imaging my machine is ON 2007 I am pretty sure
the font came with that. The problem is the subscripts and superscripts
do not show up. This is particularly irritating because, otherwise, this
would be the perfect font for typing in-line math equations. I also like
the way it looks on the screen. But now I have to switch to some other
font to be able to display superscripts.

Sometimes ON 07 is like an evil genie, it gives you one thing that you
like only to take away something else or make that one desired thing
unusable in some other way.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Hi Grant,

Cambria Math is from ON 2007. It's actually from Office 2007. It is the
font used in Word 2007's new equation editor. The superscript/subscript
issue might have to do with that, because it is optimized for that
particular editor.
If you get a chance, install Office 2007 Beta (you can only have one
version of Outlook though, I haven't encountered many issues with a
side-by-side install if 2003 and 2007 though) and take a look at Word's
new editor.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Grant Robertson]

take a look at Word's new editor.

You mean the new equation editor? I thought I had selected for that to be
installed with ON 07. It didn't look too different to me but it seemed
faster. Maybe it didn't install the 07 version of the equation editor
after all.

I'm not much into dinking with my computer much anymore. I have finally
gotten it stable for using ON 07 so I want to leave it the heck alone. I
will be getting a new desktop soon so I can dink around with it on that.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

The new equation editor only exists in Word 2007 and is built into it
there. I doubt you could have installed it with ON.
You can take a test drive of Office 2007 via the Web (since yesterday I
believe): http://www.runaware.com/microsoft/en-us/office2007/td

Patrick Schmid

 

[Grant Robertson]

The new equation editor only exists in Word 2007 and is built into it
there. I doubt you could have installed it with ON.

Take another look at the ON 07 beta install. If you choose custom you
have an option of installing any or all of the standard Office options,
including the Equation Editor.

 

[Patrick Schmid]

That's the standard Microsoft Equation Editor 3?

Office 2007 ships with two equation editors. First there is Equation
Editor 3 which is used by Excel, PPT, etc. Then there is a brand new one
built into Word only which is really fantastic. I don't think the new
one is even a shared component, so it doesn't even show up as individual
item during setup.

Patrick Schmid

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Office 2007 ships with two equation editors. First there is
Equation Editor 3 which is used by Excel, PPT, etc. Then there
is a brand new one built into Word only which is really
fantastic. I don't think the new one is even a shared component,
so it doesn't even show up as individual item during setup.

Would this mean that the new "fantistic" piece will not be available
in ON?

Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid]

Not sure. Paste as picture from Word might work (there are bugs in B2
with some of this copying & pasting functionality in Word).

Patrick Schmid