How to place subscript indices close to the variable they belong to in the equation editor?

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Hi :slight_smile:
First apols for forwarding this to the Users Mailing List but
1. There didn't seem to be anything you'd want kept confidential
2. It's good to get feedback from a wider range of people.

This list weirdly made it awkward to reply to the whole list so i
figured it wa only sent as a pm by accident. Nowadays we have to use
"Reply to all" or "List Reply", "Group reply" or other similar things
because normal "Reply to" doesn't work anymore.

Also i have numbered your points to make it easier to respond
1. Your postings seem fine (apart from accidentally going off-list
which everyone does anyway). The bug-report is more of a "feature
request" because the way it works at the moment has been generally
agreed as being fine. It's only now you mention it that the kerning
(spacing) looks really odd.

2. Yes, that was the type of cheat i was talking about. It's
technically correct but just very clunky isn't it? I can understand
you really needing a more elegant solution!

3. i thought i had suggested using a proper symbol for integration
instead of using the curly "f". It wouldn't solve the stated problem
but glosses over it by being better in a different way? Errr, unless
it really is meant to be an "f" instead of an integration symbol!

4. Scribus might be worth a shot. Test it first by copy&pasting all
the nice formatting you have done in Writer into Scfibus and then see
if it can handle correcting the kerning issue. Scribus is meant to be
a DTP so i'd have thought that covers kerning. It's normal to use a
word-processor to do the writing and then a DTP to polish it up. But
take it for a test-drive first, right :wink: ?

5. "Math" (the formula editor) can
File - "Save As ..."
"Math ML" = gives .Mml files
and that might be able to be read by other equation editors. The
default odf might also be able to be read too. It might still be a
bit of faffing around trying to get the italics kerning sorted but it
should be better than re-keying all the formulae! I feel i might be
missing an even easier way, perhaps copy&paste?

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: