https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50420
Bug #: 50420
Summary: EDITING: Formulas in Writer disappear / get garbled
Classification: Unclassified
Product: LibreOffice
Version: LibO 3.4.5 release
Platform: x86 (IA32)
OS/Version: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Background:
When doing some homework, I need to enter lots of different formulas in one
"big" Writer document.
Some formulas are similar to each other, so I sometimes copy and paste and end
edit the copy to get the results.
Overview:
Sometimes, when re-visiting sections of the document I haven't touched in a
while, there are very few formulas where this bug appears:
- First, the formula looks totally garbled. Either stretched out, shrinked,
sometimes original size (all three: fact)
(Note that especially the last one is nasty, since I don't notice until it's
too late)
- It seems that sometimes there's a wrong formula being displayed (wild
speculation!)
- The "stretched out / shrinked" size of the old, correct formula seems to
always match the size of the new, incorrect formula
- When double-clicking the buggy formula, the formula is re-rendered with a
wholly different formula, and the text it is made from is replaced, too.
Sometimes this "wholly different formula" is an older version of that specific
formula object, or contains something from a different object that doesn't
share the copy-paste-tree with it (not 100% sure about the last statement).
This is VERY annoying, since I have to scan the whole paper every single time I
finish something. And for each buggy formula, I have to retype the whole thing,
after finding out what it's actually meant to say.
Steps to Reproduce:
I regrettably haven't found a predictable, easy way. The long way is:
1) Open LibreOffice Writer
2) Create a few formulas, write unique (so we can see the effect later) stuff
into them
3) Copy, paste, edit, save, close, open a few dozen times.
Sorry that I can't provide more specific instructions here.
Actual Results: Formulas got "garbled": The text (Like "x^2+3") is replaced by
something wrong (which is THEN rendered on the screen, being correctly scaled).
Expected Results: Formulas stay the same unless edited.
Build Date & Platform: (what it reports in the Help > About Section)
LibreOffice 3.4.5
OOO340m1 (Build:502)
$ uname -a
Linux myfed 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 1 21:00:16 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux
(I do notice that I don't have the latest version of LibreOffice. Trying to
update...)
Additional Builds and Platforms:
I currently can't test this for any other platform.
Additional Information:
I don't get what I'm supposed to write here.
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