https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105483
Bug ID: 105483
Summary: Default value of GreekCharStyle should be '2'.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.2.4.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Formula Editor
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: j...@curioussymbols.com
Description:
Referring to bug 52225, a change was made some years ago which misguidedly
changed the default format of Greek letters in equations from italic to roman
script. Recently, an 'expert configuration' setting change was made which
implements a customisation that allows the correct behaviour to be restored.
However the default behave remains the wrong one -- a new installation of
LibreOffice continues to provide non-italic Greek letters in all formulae.
The default value of GreekCharStyle should be changed to 2 -- italics for lower
case greek letters, non-italic for upper case.
This correct behaviour would then be consistent with Word 2010+, Latex and
Wikipedia, and is the conventional formatting of most mathematics, science and
engineering publications (textbooks, journal papers, etc).
I am not sure where this default value is set... perhaps it is implicit that
the default value is zero. Tried searching the code but didn't see anything
obvious.
https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/e87071ac57a7711078715d9165c264ec3db180ab/starmath/source/node.cxx
Steps to Reproduce:
Install LibreOffice, try the formula '%rho'
Actual Results:
Greek letter rho will be shown in non-italics.
Expected Results:
Should be in italics.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Tried on various systems.
Additional Info:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/50.0
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