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June 4, 2014
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Math formula formatting messed up (multiply operator and parens affected)

  • June 4, 2014
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My installation of MathCAD 14 is messed up.

It used to work correctly, but now the multiplication symbol has turned into an empty square. I can't figure out how to restore it to normal. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling MathCAD but it didn't change the behavior.

Also, a left-paren and right parent look normal when on just one line. But if I put parens around a fraction e.g. (3/4) I see a a bunch of empty boxes instead of the parentheses.

Best answer by Werner_E

Probably the symbol font is corrupted. Delete it from the Windows font folder and reinstall it. Double clicking on a good symbol.ttf should do the job.

Another possible candidate is the Unimath font which can be found on your Mathcad installation CD.

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Werner_E25-Diamond IAnswer
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June 4, 2014

Probably the symbol font is corrupted. Delete it from the Windows font folder and reinstall it. Double clicking on a good symbol.ttf should do the job.

Another possible candidate is the Unimath font which can be found on your Mathcad installation CD.

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ptc-31688301-VisitorAuthor
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June 5, 2014

Thanks. That was the problem.

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
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June 4, 2014

As Werner says, the symbol font is corrupted. Delete symbol.ttf from the fonts folder and install a new copy (attached). Note that the font needs to be installed, simply copying the new file to the fonts folder is not enough.

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