How do I get my feature suggestions to Star Division?

[J. J. Ramsey]

I have a very simple feature suggestion: bold Greek fonts for StarMath.
The reason bold Greek fonts are needed is that the "textbook" way of
indicating a vector is boldface (as opposed to an arrow over the
letter), and some vectors, like torque and angular velocity, are
represented with Greek letters (tau and omega, respectively).

I e-mailed Star Division at us.stardivis...@stardivision.com.
Obviously, the feature didn't make it into SO 5.1.

-- I am a fool for Christ. Mostly I am a fool. --

[Stephan Wunderlich]

Hi,

> I have a very simple feature suggestion: bold Greek fonts for
StarMath.
> The reason bold Greek fonts are needed is that the "textbook" way of
> indicating a vector is boldface (as opposed to an arrow over the
> letter), and some vectors, like torque and angular velocity, are
> represented with Greek letters (tau and omega, respectively).

You may try 'bold tau' resp. 'bold omega' for this purpose. That
should work.

Reagrds

Stephan

[J. J. Ramsey]

It *doesn't* work; that's the problem. Type %alpha bold %alpha in
StarMath. The two alphas will look the same, even when printed. I tried
it.

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[bobn...@tamasp.math.umn.edu]

Speaking of StarMath (and as there is no StarMath group as yet), here is a
suggestion. Many people suffer through the agonies of TeX and LaTeX. In
the math, physics, astronomy, and other communities, this format is necessary
for many purposes. Each community is small, yet together make up a not
entirely insubstantial market of people with grant money.

If StarOffice supported this non-proprietary format they would earn the
undying devotion and business of thousands of people around the world.

Chris

[sup...@yandy.com]

In article <37C1E34A...@yahoo.com>,
"J. J. Ramsey" <jjramsey...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Stephan Wunderlich wrote:

> > > I have a very simple feature suggestion: bold Greek fonts for
> > StarMath.
> > > The reason bold Greek fonts are needed is that the "textbook" way
of
> > > indicating a vector is boldface (as opposed to an arrow over the
> > > letter), and some vectors, like torque and angular velocity, are
> > > represented with Greek letters (tau and omega, respectively).
> >
> > You may try 'bold tau' resp. 'bold omega' for this purpose. That
> > should work.
>
> It *doesn't* work; that's the problem. Type %alpha bold %alpha in
> StarMath. The two alphas will look the same, even when printed. I
tried
> it.

Which is because there is only a regular weight font.

Maybe you should try some real math fonts like Lucida New Math

http://www.YandY.com/fonts.htm
http://www.YandY.com/lucida.htm
http://www.YandY.com/lucida.htm#lblnm
http://www.YandY.com/lucida.htm#lbe

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In article <1999Aug2...@tamasp.math.umn.edu>,
bobn...@tamasp.math.umn.edu wrote:

> Speaking of StarMath (and as there is no StarMath group as yet), here
is a
> suggestion. Many people suffer through the agonies of TeX and LaTeX.
In
> the math, physics, astronomy, and other communities, this format is
necessary
> for many purposes. Each community is small, yet together make up a
not
> entirely insubstantial market of people with grant money.
>
> If StarOffice supported this non-proprietary format they would earn
the
> undying devotion and business of thousands of people around the world.

But what would be the point? Given that TeX does a better job
of typesetting in any case, particularly math...