Greek letters displayed as name [solved]

wellis · Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 4

Greek letters entered in Mark-up language like "%lambda" have suddenly started displaying by name like "lambda" instead of as the intended Greek letter. This is in documents that are already littered with correctly-displayed Greek letters. Once I start editing any particular formula, the Greek letters in that formula stop displaying properly. Anybody have any ideas?
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wellis · Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 4

Rebooting (the 3-fingered Windows salute, CTRL-ALT-Delete) seemed to fix it. Sorry if I upset anyone.
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wellis · Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 4

My Greek-letter lambda's appear as text "lambda" instead of as a Greek letter. At first, the problem went away if I rebooted. That doesn't work anymore.

The problem may have to do with my using Courier New as my default font, while it appears OOo uses Times New Roman as the default font for rendering Greek letters. Now, I can usually I can fix a formula by changing lambda in the Greek-letter catalog to a different font & then changing it back to Times New Roman. But as soon as I try to open & edit the formula again, the lambda's turn back into text. The problem is becoming very frustrating and time-consuming, so much so that i may have to abandon Open Office if I can't get my formulas to stay put.
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TerryE · Super User Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 550 Location: UK

What are you running under -- XP or what? I assume by your reference to Courier New that you are using an MS OS. I've never come across this when I've used Math. Also the MS Courier New font includes the Greek characters.

I've had a search in the Math topic for Greek and can't find anything. Sorry
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wellis · Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2006 Posts: 4

I'm using XP. I've taken to defining a second way the Greek letters that are blowing up on my system. So, my workaround for lambda is using %llambda, and %ggamma for gamma. Even though I've defined Courier New as my default font, the standard Greek letters that come with Math seem to be in Times New Roman. Perhaps the problem has to do with my installing some math fonts a while back. . . . .
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