Bug 168629 - FILEOPEN DOCX Formula looks very different in Writer than in Word
Summary: FILEOPEN DOCX Formula looks very different in Writer than in Word
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: filters and storage (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: DOCX-Formula
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Reported: 2025-09-30 23:59 UTC by Aron Budea
Modified: 2025-10-01 18:50 UTC (History)
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Comparison screenshot (Word vs. Writer) (78.21 KB, image/png)
2025-09-30 23:59 UTC, Aron Budea 		Details
Sample DOCX (16.10 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document)
2025-10-01 00:00 UTC, Aron Budea 		Details
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Description Aron Budea 2025-09-30 23:59:30 UTC 
Created attachment 203061 [details]
Comparison screenshot (Word vs. Writer)

The attached document is the first formula on page 3 from attachment 103592 [details] of bug 81840.

Note that it looks very different in Writer:
- the size is different,
- there is a ¿ in one of the matrices
- -SID and -SOD are italic
- a different font is used (instead of Cambria Math as Word shows).

Observed in LO 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (8ea8e254a3151f5390f3a10ff156fcaf8e7c5d5c), 3.5.0.3 / Windows.
Comment 1 Aron Budea 2025-10-01 00:00:21 UTC 
Created attachment 203062 [details]
Sample DOCX
Comment 2 Regina Henschel 2025-10-01 18:50:17 UTC 
One problem is, that the matrix does not have a content at each position, but empty placeholders. LibreOffice cannot render such matrices. A solution could be to import empty placeholders as `{}`.