auto superscript

azgarth · Newbie Joined: 08 Mar 2010 Posts: 2

hello,

on my laptop (running kubuntu and openoffice 3.1), when i do x^2 or any other number, it automatically makes it squared, the letter gets smaller and placed above the x, like it's supposed to during formulas.
however, on my desktop (win7/openoffice 3.2), it just stays the same. i've found out that ctrl+shift+p works (superscript, i think?), but it doesn't do it automatically.
how can i make it so it works on my desktop as well? what is it that makes it work on my laptop?
i looked in autocorrect, and neither have it there.
i haven't installed any plugins that i know of, nor altered any settings.
thanks for this fantastic suite either way, many of my papers could not have been written without it.

peterroots · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:10 am Post subject:

nothing to do with OpenOffice (is my guess)
I think you have the international variant of your keyboard on your laptop and the default one on your desktop.
With a US keyboard set to alternative international you see the behavior you want, not only in OpenOffice but system wide.
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azgarth · Newbie Joined: 08 Mar 2010 Posts: 2

after testing, i think you're probably right, it seems to work system wide on my laptop.
is there any way i can change the layout on win7 to that of alternative international?
i can't find it in the list when i search for layouts.

peterroots · Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:03 am Post subject:

The same thing used to be us-intl or us-international - do you have anything like that?
If not just give some of the other variants of your keyboard layout a try and see that they do
The UK keyboard, for example, does not have a alternative international but only international with dead keys (not tried this, as no UK keyboard only US Sad

) and might get some unexpected (but sometimes useful) effects
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