Re: [dev] formulas OO

2007-02-06 Thread Mathias Bauer
Lucas Momparler wrote:

 Hello,
 
 Why the mathematical formulas in all OO versions have so low graphic
 quality?
 This happens specially when you save as HTML to publish online.
 
 3+2 can appear as 3-2 !
 
From version to version of OO you can see many design changes: icons, logos,
 presentations, buttons,...
 but when it comes to the really useful, in my opinion, sometimes it could be
 a bit better.
 
 Will the problem of the mathematical formulas always be in WONTFIX?

What issues are you talking about?
The problem I see here is that in case of HTML export a formula is
converted to a bitmap image. This can (and sometimes will) lead to a
mediocre display quality.

What options do we have? We could either export to SVG or we could
export to Math ML. A question remains whether all browsers support this
sufficiently, but let's take for granted.

IIRC we already have an issue for option 2. It's currently not worked on
because we indeed didn't see it important enough compared to other things.

Option 1 currently isn't an option because our graphic enginge does not
allow to export to SVG (only Windows Metafile and VCL Metafile are
supported as non-pixel image formats). As this is deadly needed for
other reasons also I hope that we can go this way in a not so far
future. The changes to be made for the HTML export will be comparably
small then.

Ciao,
Mathias

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[dev] formulas OO

2007-02-05 Thread Lucas Momparler

Hello,

Why the mathematical formulas in all OO versions have so low graphic
quality?
This happens specially when you save as HTML to publish online.

3+2 can appear as 3-2 !


From version to version of OO you can see many design changes: icons, logos,

presentations, buttons,...
but when it comes to the really useful, in my opinion, sometimes it could be
a bit better.

Will the problem of the mathematical formulas always be in WONTFIX?
or will OO aim to be also useful for scientists?


Thank you