Equation Editor uses the wrong symbols

[mattgreytak]

Hello,
I was using Office X and I found that when I selected the symbol for a
dot over a character, it put an intersection symbol over the character
instead. Two dots become two intersection symbols, and three becomes
three. Most of the other over-character symbols are okay, but a hat
is a cursive symbol and a tilde is a circle with an x through it. I
have never run into this problem before today (I have put dots over
characters before with no problems). It was about time to upgrade
Office X anyway, so I bought Office 2004, uninstalled the old version
of Office and installed the new one. I am having the exact same
problem.

Any ideas why this only started happening today? Any idea why
uninstalling office (and equation editor) and installing the new
version of office (and equation editor) did not solve the problem?

I have AppleWorks on my computer as well. It has its own Equation
Editor that looks like an old version of Word's equation editor. Dots
over characters work perfectly there.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Bob Mathews]

I was using Office X and I found that when I selected the
symbol for a dot over a character, it put an intersection
symbol
over the character instead. Two dots become two intersection
symbols, and three becomes three. Most of the other over-
character symbols are okay, but a hat is a cursive symbol and
a tilde is a circle with an x through it.

What fonts are your styles set to? Specifically the Symbol style.
(This is in the Styles menu, under Define.)

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Director of Training
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[mattgreytak]

What fonts are your styles set to? Specifically the Symbol style.
(This is in the Styles menu, under Define.)

Text, variables, matrix-vector, and numbers are set to Times.
Functions, LC/UC greek, and symbols are set to Symbol.

Aha! This morning I had changed "functions" from Times to Symbol.
Switching it back to Times, its default, solved the problem. I had
been trying to define a style that was a bold italic symbol font, and
I though "functions" was a safe place to store it.

Thanks!
Matt

 

[Bob Mathews]

Aha! This morning I had changed "functions" from Times to
Symbol. Switching it back to Times, its default, solved the
problem. I had been trying to define a style that was a bold
italic symbol font, and I though "functions" was a safe place
to store it.

Glad you solved the problem. Just FYI, "Function" style is the
one used for named functions like sin, log, etc.

LCGreek, UCGreek, and Symbol must be set to Symbol font. Other
styles can use any alphabetic font.

--
Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news
FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType 5
MathType, WebEQ, MathPlayer, MathFlow, Equation Editor, TeXaide