Equation Editor

[Jansen S.]

Hi,

I have a question about the Equation Editor in MS Office Word 2003 Pro NL.
Why is the minus-sign not working in the editor? If you press ,for instance,
the plus-key, a plus-sign appears on the screen (as always) but if you press
the minus-key, the minus-sign does not appear...
A wanted to type X [subscript]n-1 but it appeared on my screen as X
[subscript]n 1.
There was no minus-sign. When I printed it, it wasn't there either. The
plus-sign works perfectly normal.

Regards, Jansen S.

 

[Bob Mathews]

Why is the minus-sign not working in the editor? If you press ,for
instance, the plus-key, a plus-sign appears on the screen (as
always) but if you press the minus-key, the minus-sign does not
appear...
A wanted to type X [subscript]n-1 but it appeared on my screen
as X [subscript]n 1. There was no minus-sign. When I printed it,
it wasn't there either. The plus-sign works perfectly normal.

Jansen, the only thing I know of that would cause problems such as you
mention is a problem with the fonts. Make sure the Symbol style is set to
Symbol font. (With Equation Editor open, click on Style > Define.)

If it's already set to Symbol font, write me privately and I'll send you a
new copy of Symbol. Your old one may be corrupted.

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[Jansen S.]

Why is the minus-sign not working in the editor? If you press ,for
instance, the plus-key, a plus-sign appears on the screen (as
always) but if you press the minus-key, the minus-sign does not
appear...
A wanted to type X [subscript]n-1 but it appeared on my screen
as X [subscript]n 1. There was no minus-sign. When I printed it,
it wasn't there either. The plus-sign works perfectly normal.

Jansen, the only thing I know of that would cause problems such as you
mention is a problem with the fonts. Make sure the Symbol style is set to
Symbol font. (With Equation Editor open, click on Style > Define.)

If it's already set to Symbol font, write me privately and I'll send you a
new copy of Symbol. Your old one may be corrupted.

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

Hi Bob,

First, tnx for replying!

Because I am dutch, I hope a have found the wright dutch equivalent of the
thing you mean.
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I noticed that, in Word itself, there is no problem taking the
"symbol"-font, but in the equation editor, I can only take "symbol set".
"Symbol" isn't there. I don't know why the equation editor doesn't find that
font...

I also have a lot of Adobe fonts installed on my pc, maybe "symbol set" is
one of them? Maybe it is in conflict with the symbol font? I don't know. But
what I can do is to renew the symbol -font in my fonts-directory, and just
hope the equation editor finds it again.

I will mail you at bobm at dessci.com.

tnx in advance!

 

[Jansen S.]

It worked! Symbol was back in my list, I chose it and BAM.... I had my
minus-sign back!

Tnx Bob!!

Jansen, S.

 

[Bob Mathews]

It worked! Symbol was back in my list, I chose it and BAM.... I had
my minus-sign back!

Great! Thanks for letting us know.

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