1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 352ac0773SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 419f38498Smseidel * 552ac0773SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 652ac0773SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 752ac0773SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 852ac0773SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 952ac0773SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 1052ac0773SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 1152ac0773SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 1219f38498Smseidel * 1352ac0773SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 1419f38498Smseidel * 1552ac0773SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 1652ac0773SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 1752ac0773SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 1852ac0773SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 1952ac0773SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 2052ac0773SAndrew Rist * under the License. 2119f38498Smseidel * 2252ac0773SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 2352ac0773SAndrew Rist 24cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsmathguidealignxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Manually Aligning Formula Parts</title> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/smath/guide/align.xhp</filename> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 3254be4daeSmseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156384"> 3354be4daeSmseidel<bookmark_value>aligning; characters in %PRODUCTNAME Math</bookmark_value> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>formula parts; manually aligning</bookmark_value> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 36*2a389aa1Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156384" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><variable id="align"><link href="text/smath/guide/align.xhp" name="Manually Aligning Formula Parts">Manually Aligning Formula Parts</link> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 38*2a389aa1Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154657" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U">How do you align characters in $[officename] Math quickly and easily?</paragraph> 39*2a389aa1Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150249" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">To accomplish this, you must define empty groups and character strings. They do not require any space, but carry information that helps in the alignment process.</paragraph> 40*2a389aa1Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153912" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">To create empty groups, enter curly brackets <emph>{}</emph> in the Commands window. In the following example, the goal is to achieve a line break so that the plus signs are beneath one another, even though one less character is entered in the upper line:</paragraph> 41*2a389aa1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153246" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">a+a+a+{} newline {}{}{}{}{}a+a+a+a</paragraph> 42*2a389aa1Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143229" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Empty character strings are a simple way to ensure that texts and formulas are left-aligned. They are defined using double inverted commas "" . Make sure you do not use any typographic inverted commas. Example:</paragraph> 43*2a389aa1Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153809" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">"A further example." newline a+b newline ""c-d</paragraph> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/smath/guide/brackets.xhp#brackets"/> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 48