Bug 162567 - [FEATURE REQUEST] Embed equations within text fields in all apps like ONLYOFFICE does
Summary: [FEATURE REQUEST] Embed equations within text fields in all apps like ONLYOFF...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 35033
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formula Editor (show other bugs)
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24.2.5.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2024-08-22 14:40 UTC by Gerson
Modified: 2024-08-23 12:21 UTC (History)
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Description Gerson 2024-08-22 14:40:43 UTC
Description:
The only office app I use is LibreOffice for decades, but as a physicists, I need to add equations to my texts and slides all the time. Ideally, we want to use Latex as the language to write down the equations. To do this in LibreOffice, I use the TexMaths equation and it works, but it's not perfect.

I've recently tried ONLYOFFICE and they have a MUCH MUCH better approach. Their own equation editor already accepts Latex notation. But more importantly, the equations are handled as part of the text fields, instead of being a separate OLE object like LibreOffice's equation or TexMaths SVG objects.

The ONLYOFFICE approach is significantly better, since it allow us to include equations within the text areas, and the font size/color follow the formats used in the text area.

I believe that nowadays MS Office does the same thing, as some people have told me. But I don't have MS Office to try it.

After decades using LibreOffice, for the first time a different office suite has called my attention and the only thing that holds me is inertia, because this feature would really make my life MUCH easier.

Please consider this improvement on the equation editor for all LibreOffice apps.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Insert a formula in LibreOffice writer within a text paragraph.
2. Select the whole paragraph and change the font size/color.

1. On Impress, there's no way to add a formula within a text field.

Actual Results:
On Writer, the formula will not change font color/size and we need to open the Formula Editor to change it and make it match the paragraph.

On Impress the text and formula are two separate objects and needs to be handled and positioned/aligned manually.

Expected Results:
Formatting the paragraph should change the color/size/etc of the formula within the paragraph.

On Impress, the formula should be inserted within the text field and handled as a single object with the text.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
All these features seem to work fine in both ONLYOFFICE and MS Office. Moreover, both allow for full or partial use of Latex language.
Comment 1 Rafael Lima 2024-08-23 12:21:27 UTC
Yeah... this is a very needed feature.

Let's keep the discussion in the duplicate ticket (bug 35033).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 35033 ***