Operation Manual

Figure 279: Catalog with new symbol
Note
Many symbols occur in more than one font. If you want to exchange documents with
others, take care to use a font that is installed on their machine.
In the default LibreOffice installation, only those user-defined symbols that actually occur in the
document are stored with it. Sometimes it is useful to embed all the user-defined symbols, for
example when the document is going to be further edited by another person. Go to Tools >
Options > LibreOffice Math and on the Settings page, uncheck the option Embed only used
symbols (smaller file size).This setting is only available when you are working on a Math
document.
Default layout with style
In Writer, formulas are formatted according to the Formula
frame style. In the Style and Formatting window (displayed
with F11), click on the third icon at the top: Frame Styles.
Right-click on Formula and select Modify. By this means,
you can directly modify all formulas in your document,
regarding spacing (page 276) or background (page 277),
unless you manually modify formula formatting.
To apply this style in all your new Writer documents, you
must include the Formula style in your default template. To
do so, create a new Writer document and modify the
Formula frame style as you wish. Save the document using
File > Save as Template and save it into My Templates with a name of your choice. To define this
template as your default template, select the template you just created and choose Set as default.
If you wish to return to the default template given at installation, open the Template Manager, click
on the Action Menu and point to Reset Default Template, on the drop-down menu, and click Text
Document. This menu choice does not appear unless a custom template has been set as the
default.
The next time that you create a document by choosing File > New, the document will be created
from the new default template.
For more information on the Template Manager, see Chapter 9, Styles and Templates.
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Figure 280 : Modify Frame Style
Formula