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The format options are displayed in the lower half of the Formula Elements window.</ahelp> These options are also listed in the <link href="text/shared/00/00000001.xhp#kontextmenue" name="context menu">context menu</link> of the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 71</section> 72<section id="howtoget"> 73 <embed href="text/smath/00/00000004.xhp#astasr"/> 74</section> 75<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154263" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">The following is a complete list of all available formatting options in $[officename] Math. The icon next to the formatting option indicates that it can be accessed through the Elements window (menu <emph>View - Elements</emph>) or through the context menu of the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3153536" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">The letter "a" refers to the placeholder in your formula which you would like to assign to the respective formatting. You can substitute this character for any other you like.</paragraph> 77<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151104" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="4">Formatting options</paragraph> 78<table id="tbl_id3154569"> 79<tablerow> 80<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 81<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1008B" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 82<image id="img_id3150981" src="starmath/res/co21916.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3150981" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 83 </image></paragraph> 84<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_LSUPX" id="bm_id3154473" localize="false"/></tablecell> 85<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 86<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3147519" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="45">Superscript left</paragraph> 87<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147531" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="44"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_LSUPX">Inserts a superscript to the left of a placeholder.</ahelp> You can also type <emph><?>lsup{<?>}</emph> in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 88</tablecell> 89</tablerow> 90</table> 91<table id="tbl_id3155895"> 92<tablerow> 93<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 94<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN100C4" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 95<image id="img_id3149691" src="starmath/res/co21918.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3149691" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 96 </image></paragraph> 97<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_CSUPX" id="bm_id3146921" localize="false"/></tablecell> 98<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 99<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3146931" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="60">Superscript top</paragraph> 100<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159195" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="58"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_CSUPX">Inserts a superscript directly above a placeholder.</ahelp> You can also type <emph><?>csup<?></emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 101</tablecell> 102</tablerow> 103</table> 104<table id="tbl_id3149482"> 105<tablerow> 106<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 107<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN100FF" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 108<image id="img_id3149097" src="starmath/res/co21908.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3149097" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 109 </image></paragraph> 110<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_RSUPX" id="bm_id3149821" localize="false"/></tablecell> 111<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 112<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3151249" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="39">Superscript right</paragraph> 113<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="40"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_RSUPX">Inserts a superscript to the right of a placeholder.</ahelp> You can also type <emph><?>^{<?>}</emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window, or you can use <emph>rsup</emph> or <emph>sup</emph>.</paragraph> 114</tablecell> 115</tablerow> 116</table> 117<table id="tbl_id3154908"> 118<tablerow> 119<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 120<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1013E" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 121<image id="img_id3149044" src="starmath/res/co21905.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3149044" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 122 </image></paragraph> 123<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_BINOMXY" id="bm_id3147575" localize="false"/></tablecell> 124<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 125<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3152774" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="63">Vertical stack (2 elements)</paragraph> 126<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147326" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="62"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_BINOMXY">Inserts a vertical stack (binomial) with two placeholders.</ahelp> You can also type <emph>binom<?><?></emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 127</tablecell> 128</tablerow> 129</table> 130<table id="tbl_id3147079"> 131<tablerow> 132<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 133<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10179" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 134<image id="img_id3154390" src="starmath/res/co21901.png" width="0.2228inch" height="0.2228inch"><alt id="alt_id3154390" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 135 </image></paragraph> 136<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_NEWLINE" id="bm_id3151033" localize="false"/></tablecell> 137<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 138<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3150575" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="41">New line</paragraph> 139<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150587" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_NEWLINE">Inserts a new line in your document.</ahelp> You can also type <emph>newline</emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 140</tablecell> 141</tablerow> 142</table> 143<table id="tbl_id3154918"> 144<tablerow> 145<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 146<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN101B2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 147<image id="img_id3155117" src="starmath/res/co21912.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3155117" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 148 </image></paragraph> 149<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_LSUBX" id="bm_id3148751" localize="false"/></tablecell> 150<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 151<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3148760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="43">Subscript left</paragraph> 152<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147309" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="42"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_LSUBX">Inserts a subscript to the left of a placeholder.</ahelp> You can also type <emph><?>lsub{<?>}</emph> in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 153</tablecell> 154</tablerow> 155</table> 156<table id="tbl_id3151384"> 157<tablerow> 158<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 159<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN101EB" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 160<image id="img_id3149544" src="starmath/res/co21917.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3149544" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 161 </image></paragraph> 162<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_CSUBX" id="bm_id3150119" localize="false"/></tablecell> 163<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 164<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3150687" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="61">Subscript bottom</paragraph> 165<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150699" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="59"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_CSUBX">Inserts a subscript directly under a placeholder.</ahelp> You can also type <emph><?>csub<?></emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 166</tablecell> 167</tablerow> 168</table> 169<table id="tbl_id3147624"> 170<tablerow> 171<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 172<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10226" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 173<image id="img_id3145265" src="starmath/res/co21904.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3145265" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 174 </image></paragraph> 175<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_RSUBX" id="bm_id3145126" localize="false"/></tablecell> 176<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 177<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3145136" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="37">Subscript right</paragraph> 178<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146913" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="38"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_RSUBX">Inserts a subscript to the right of a placeholder.</ahelp> You can also type <emph><?>_{<?>}</emph> in the <emph>Commands</emph> window, and the subscript dash can be replaced by <emph>rsub</emph> or <emph>sub</emph>.</paragraph> 179</tablecell> 180</tablerow> 181</table> 182<table id="tbl_id3150558"> 183<tablerow> 184<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 185<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10265" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 186<image id="img_id3149220" src="starmath/res/co21906.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3149220" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 187 </image></paragraph> 188<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_STACK" id="bm_id3147107" localize="false"/></tablecell> 189<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 190<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3147116" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="65">Vertical stack (3 elements)</paragraph> 191<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146332" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="64"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_STACK">Inserts a vertical stack with three placeholders.</ahelp> You can also type <emph>stack {<?>#<?>#<?>}</emph> in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 192</tablecell> 193</tablerow> 194</table> 195<table id="tbl_id3147608"> 196<tablerow> 197<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 198<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN102A0" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 199<image id="img_id3149848" src="starmath/res/co21902.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3149848" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 200 </image></paragraph> 201<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_SBLANK" id="bm_id3155563" localize="false"/></tablecell> 202<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 203<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3155572" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">Small gap</paragraph> 204<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147056" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_SBLANK">Inserts a small gap between a placeholder and the next element.</ahelp> You can also type <emph>`</emph> directly in the Commands window. The command must appear to the left or right of a symbol, variable, number or complete command.</paragraph> 205</tablecell> 206</tablerow> 207</table> 208<table id="tbl_id3154778"> 209<tablerow> 210<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 211<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN102DC" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 212<image id="img_id3154094" src="starmath/res/co21909.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3154094" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 213 </image></paragraph> 214<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_ALIGNLX" id="bm_id3153801" localize="false"/></tablecell> 215<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 216<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3154580" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">Align left</paragraph> 217<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154592" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_ALIGNLX">This icon assigns left-alignment to "a" and inserts a placeholder.</ahelp> You can type <emph>alignl<?></emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 218</tablecell> 219</tablerow> 220</table> 221<table id="tbl_id3151117"> 222<tablerow> 223<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 224<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 225<image id="img_id3156130" src="starmath/res/co21910.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3156130" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 226 </image></paragraph> 227<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_ALIGNCX" id="bm_id3154714" localize="false"/></tablecell> 228<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 229<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3154723" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Align to horizontal center</paragraph> 230<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_ALIGNCX">Assigns horizontal central alignment to "a" and inserts a placeholder.</ahelp> You can also type <emph>alignc<?></emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 231</tablecell> 232</tablerow> 233</table> 234<table id="tbl_id3150461"> 235<tablerow> 236<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 237<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10352" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 238<image id="img_id3155583" src="starmath/res/co21911.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3155583" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 239 </image></paragraph> 240<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_ALIGNRX" id="bm_id3151209" localize="false"/></tablecell> 241<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 242<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3149768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Align right</paragraph> 243<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149780" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_ALIGNRX">Inserts the command for right alignment and a placeholder.</ahelp> You can also type <emph>alignr<?></emph> in the <emph>Commands</emph> window.</paragraph> 244</tablecell> 245</tablerow> 246</table> 247<table id="tbl_id3149237"> 248<tablerow> 249<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 250<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1038D" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 251<image id="img_id3155085" src="starmath/res/co21907.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3155085" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 252 </image></paragraph> 253<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_MATRIX" id="bm_id3154328" localize="false"/></tablecell> 254<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 255<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3154338" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Matrix stack</paragraph> 256<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146941" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="26"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_MATRIX">This icon inserts a matrix with four placeholders.</ahelp> You can also type <emph>matrix{<?>#<?>##<?>#<?>}</emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window. The position of an element inside this diagram is indicated by two coordinates; the first specifies the line number and the second the column number. You can expand this matrix in any direction in the <emph>Commands</emph> window by adding characters.</paragraph> 257</tablecell> 258</tablerow> 259</table> 260<table id="tbl_id3148795"> 261<tablerow> 262<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 263<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN103C9" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="F"> 264<image id="img_id3150027" src="starmath/res/co21903.png" width="0.3335inch" height="0.3335inch"><alt id="alt_id3150027" xml-lang="en-US">Icon</alt> 265 </image></paragraph> 266<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/STARMATH_HID_SMA_BLANK" id="bm_id3155108" localize="false"/></tablecell> 267<tablecell colspan="" rowspan=""> 268<paragraph role="tablehead" id="par_id3149358" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Gap</paragraph> 269<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149370" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22"><ahelp hid="HID_SMA_BLANK">This icon inserts a gap or space between placeholders.</ahelp> You can also type <emph>~</emph> directly in the <emph>Commands</emph> window. The command must appear to the left or right of a symbol, variable, number or complete command.</paragraph> 270</tablecell> 271</tablerow> 272</table> 273<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="48">For alignment, the <emph>alignl, alignc</emph> and <emph>alignr</emph> commands are especially effective, if you are </paragraph> 274<list type="unordered"> 275<listitem> 276<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151009" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="49">aligning numerators and denominators, for example <emph>{alignl a}over{b+c}</emph> 277</paragraph> 278</listitem> 279<listitem> 280<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148812" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="50">constructing binomials or stacks, for example <emph>binom{2*n}{alignr k}</emph> 281</paragraph> 282</listitem> 283<listitem> 284<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154360" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="51">aligning the elements in a matrix, for example <emph>matrix{alignr a#b+2##c+1/3#alignl d}</emph> and</paragraph> 285</listitem> 286<listitem> 287<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155946" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="52">beginning a new line, for example <emph>a+b-c newline alignr x/y</emph> 288</paragraph> 289</listitem> 290</list> 291<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154621" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="53">When using the align instructions, note that</paragraph> 292<list type="unordered"> 293<listitem> 294<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147382" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="54">they can only placed at the beginning of expressions and can only occur once. Therefore you can type <emph>a+b alignr c</emph>, but not <emph>a+alignr b</emph> 295</paragraph> 296</listitem> 297<listitem> 298<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154004" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="55">they affect each other, which means that typing <emph>{alignl{alignr a}}over{b+c}</emph> aligns <emph>a</emph> on the right.</paragraph> 299</listitem> 300</list> 301<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id8036133" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">To align using the "matrix" command</paragraph> 302<paragraph role="code" id="par_id5398419" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW" localize="false">matrix{</paragraph> 303<paragraph role="code" id="par_id1456343" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW" localize="false">alignr sin^2 x + cos^2 x#{}={}#alignl 1 ##</paragraph> 304<paragraph role="code" id="par_id4572588" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW" localize="false">alignr cos^2 x #{}={} #alignl 1 - sin^2 x</paragraph> 305<paragraph role="code" id="par_id2879726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW" localize="false">}</paragraph> 306<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10F70" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="NEW">Aligning to the left</paragraph> 307<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="56">If a line or an expression begins with text, it is aligned on the left by default. You can change this with any of the <emph>align</emph> commands. An example is <emph>stack{a+b-c*d#alignr "text"}</emph>, where "text" appears aligned to the right. Note that text must always be surrounded by quotation marks.</paragraph> 308<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149966" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="57">The standard centralized formulas can be aligned to the left without using the <emph>Format - Alignment</emph> menu. To do this, place an empty character string, that is, the inverted commas which surround any text "", before the section of formula that you want to align. For example, typing <emph>"" a+b newline "" c+d</emph> results in both equations being left-aligned instead of centered.</paragraph> 309<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id3145654" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="46">When typing information in the Commands window, note that some formats require spaces for the correct structure. This is especially true when entering values (for example, a lsup{3}) instead of placeholders.</paragraph> 310<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148708" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="47">Click <link href="text/smath/01/03091100.xhp" name="Brackets and Grouping">Brackets and Grouping</link> for more information about formatting in <emph>$[officename] Math</emph>.</paragraph> 311<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155340" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">Useful information about <link href="text/smath/01/03091200.xhp" name="Indexes and Exponents">Indexes and Exponents</link> and <link href="text/smath/01/03091400.xhp" name="Scaling">Scaling</link>, helps you organize your document in the best possible way.</paragraph> 312</body> 313</helpdocument> 314
