For those interested, I submitted an issue where some characters were
not appearing correctly in equations in MS Word until those equations
were edited. The issue number is #59416 at:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59416
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 12:23, CPHennessy wrote:
> On Tue November 8 2005 16:01, Adam Stein wrote:
> > I've looked all over the place (Google, OpenOffice.org FAQs, bugs, etc.)
> > and didn't find anything mentioning this specifically.
> >
> > I'm running OpenOffice.org v2.0 on a RH9 system. I created a document
> > with swriter, inserting a few math equations (by
> > Insert->Object->Formula). The people that need to read it use MS Office
> > 2003 (on XP systems). On the Tools->Options->Load/Save->Microsoft
> > Office window, I have OpenOffice.org Math to MathType checked (as in
> > convert from OpenOffice.org Math to MS MathType when saving the file).
> >
> > They tell me that they see boxes in the math equations instead of the
> > correct symbols. If they edit the equation, then all the symbols appear
> > correctly (just the act of editing, without changing anything, is enough
> > to get the correct symbols to appear). Maybe MS Word MathType isn't
> > activated in showing the correct symbols until that first edit?
> >
> > I can turn off the Math to MathType conversion, but all that does is
> > give them an equation with the boxes that they can't fix (since they
> > can't edit the MathType equation).
> >
> > Anybody seen this problem? More importantly, is there something I can
> > do to fix it?
>
> Can you please test that this problem also exists in the official RPMs from
> us ?
> If it does can you please report this in issuezilla ? ( http://openoffice.org
> -> "My Pages" -> "Register", then when you receive a confirmation email,
> "Login" and "File an issue" )
> In this way the relevant developers will see your bug report / suggestion and
> you will also see the progress of this feature / bug report if it is
> accepted.
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