Re: [libreoffice-users] Symbols: alpha

It sounds like what could be partly done with the Compose Special 
Character extension.  Typing the Unicode character value to get the 
letter/glyph, where %alpha is a shortcut to that.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English/add-ons-extensions/ComposeSpecialCharacters-2.0.10.oxt


On 09/29/2011 08:50 PM, H.S.Rai wrote:
> Thanks to all for their response.
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
> <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > 2011/9/29 H.S.Rai<hardeep.rai@gmail.com>:
> > > In OpenOffice, there was provision to insert symbols like:
> > >
> > > %aplha
> > >
> > > but I found this method is not working in LO
> > Could it be that you spelled it wrong, like you did above?
> My bad luck :-(
>
> It might be. Two days back I tried on LibreOffcie, but it failed, and
> need to shift to another PC for using it. But today, I worked. It must
> be spelling mistake :-(
>
> > Or why not just entering the Unicode for it (α=U+03B1)?
> Remembering unicode is not easy for me :-(
>
> > You didn't mention your operating system and desktop environment,
> Ubuntu / Gnome
>
> > but Gnome users type Ctrl+Shift+u 03b1 Enter.
> > You could also add it to your auto-correction table, but that is not
> > as convenient in some situations.
> Thanks for informing it.
>
> It was long equations and I always found to right equations like:
>
> E = m times c^2
> %alpha = %pi over %delta times %gamma
>
> or to make use of dmath
>
> http://www.dmaths.org/


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