https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89875

--- Comment #4 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> ---
You miss the point.

On initial import, the formulas are rendered correctly, and should you choose
to work in and maintain the document in LibreOffices' native ODF 1.2 format
there would be no issue with padding and fonts.

Instead you choose to work in a foreign unmaintained and proprietary MSO
document format that requires every element of the document to be imported with
filter actions and rerendered as native LibreOffice components.

On export the process is reversed, and using a different set of export filters
every element and object is converted back to that unmaintained proprietary MSO
format.

And you are surprised that it does not have 100% fidelity on round trip!

The efficient "work around" is to not use the MSO or OOXML formats. So, once
you bring a document into LibreOffice and adjust its layout there keep it in
that format. Also, prepare new manuscripts in LibreOffice.  In either case
don't save it back to a non-ODF format--keep it as an original in native
LibreOffice ODF.  Use Export to PDF for printing or collaboration, hold the
line and provide ODF 1.2 -- Microsoft 2013 will read it reasonably well.

If you have an issue with LibreOffice ODF 1.1 or 1.2 documents containing
LibreOffice Math based formulas being incorrectly or inconsistently
handled--that would be a valid issue.  This is not.

As an aside, if you'd like to extend capability of LibreOffice's Math formulas,
two routes to go with extensions...

There is Dmaths:  http://dmaths.org/documentation/doku.php?id=presentation:en
a rich .oxt based extension that extends the Math formula editor syntax

Or to add full LaTex support to LibreOffice there is TexMaths:
http://roland65.free.fr/texmaths/install.html   TexMaths adds LaTex equation
editing to LibreOffice, and generates images of formulas (SVG or PNG) in line,
rather than Math OLE objects. But, requires a couple of helper programs to
support Tex and generate the images MikTek/TexLive/MacTex be installed.

Beyond that, if LibreOffice's WYSIWYG handling of formulas in ODF is
insufficient--then maybe a LaTex based editor like LyX would be more
productive?

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