Re: [libreoffice-users] Expandable brackets in writer document, formula maybe?

Hi John,

John Jason Jordan schrieb am 22-Feb-20 um 23:50:
> LO Writer in 6.3.4.2 on Xubuntu 18.04 up to date, installed from the
> PPA, from LO.
>
> I know this can be done, but the how escapes me. I need to produce
> expandable brackets in Writer like the following (but here in the e-mail
> I have to use single brackets - just assume that they are all one left
> and one right bracket):
>
>         [ +consonantal  ]
>         [ -voice                        ]
>         [ +continuant           ]
>
> I need the words aligned vertically, as you would decimal align numbers
> in a table.
>
> I tried Insert > Object > Formula with the following:
>
> left [ +consonantal
> -voice
> +continuant right ]
>
> But it all came out on a single line.

left [ stack{ "+ consonantal"#"- voice"#"+ continuant" } right none

In case you like mathematical + and - you need to provide a dummy left 
operand.

left [ stack{""+"consonantal"#""-"voice"#""+"continuant} right none


 Furthermore, I managed to change
> the font to the same font that I am using for the document

For text in quotations marks as above, it would be inside the formula 
editor menu Format > Fonts... > Modify > Text

, but I can't
> figure out how to set the point size for it.

The font size is inside formula editor menu Format > Font Size. It is 
likely that you only need to adapt "Base size".
> Any ideas?

Write the lines as normal single line paragraphs and use text flow "keep 
with next" or write them as one paragraph with line feeds. Insert a 
bracket-shape at the start of the first line and anchor it "at 
character". The bracket-shapes are in the sub-list "Symbol Shapes".

Kind regards
Regina









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