1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*52ac0773SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 5cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 9*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * 14*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * 16*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * under the License. 22*52ac0773SAndrew Rist * 23*52ac0773SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 24*52ac0773SAndrew Rist 25*52ac0773SAndrew Rist 26cdf0e10cSrcweir 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsmathguidealignxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Manually Aligning Formula Parts</title> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/smath/guide/align.xhp</filename> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 33cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2005-02-18T16:07:25">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156384"><bookmark_value>aligning; characters in %PRODUCTNAME Math</bookmark_value> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark_value>formula parts; manually aligning</bookmark_value> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156384" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><variable id="align"><link href="text/smath/guide/align.xhp" name="Manually Aligning Formula Parts">Manually Aligning Formula Parts</link> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154657" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="2">How do you align characters in $[officename] Math quickly and easily?</paragraph> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150249" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">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> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153912" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">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> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153246" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">a+a+a+{} newline {}{}{}{}{}a+a+a+a</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143229" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">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> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153809" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">"A further example." newline a+b newline ""c-d</paragraph> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/smath/guide/brackets.xhp#brackets"/> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 54