Created attachment 63932 [details] Screenshot of the wrong plus sign, in contrast to an earlier version of the document when it had worked Problem description: The operators are always set in OpenSymbol, although the user has changed the font settings to Minion Pro (shipped for free with Adobe Reader!)/ Liberation. Steps to reproduce: 1. In math mode, change font in Math to Minion Pro for all entries, exactly explained like here: http://help.libreoffice.org/Math/Fonts. For the "Sans" and "Fixed" custom font, choose any font you like. 2. Click 'Default' so all future formulae are set like this. 3. Enter 'x + y', then the Escape key on your keyboard. 4. It should be already visible that the plus sign is a bit too small and thick-ish looking. 5. Export as PDF. OpenSymbol is included. Current behavior: The plus sign is taken from the set of OpenSymbol. Expected behavior: The plus sign is taken from the set of Minion Pro. Platform (if different from the browser): Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
(In reply to comment #0) > Created attachment 63932 [details] > Screenshot of the wrong plus sign, in contrast to an earlier version of the > document when it had worked > > Problem description: > The operators are always set in OpenSymbol, although the user has changed the > font settings to Minion Pro (shipped for free with Adobe Reader!)/ Liberation. > > Steps to reproduce: > 1. In math mode, change font in Math to Minion Pro for all entries, exactly > explained like here: http://help.libreoffice.org/Math/Fonts. For the "Sans" and > "Fixed" custom font, choose any font you like. > 2. Click 'Default' so all future formulae are set like this. > 3. Enter 'x + y', then the Escape key on your keyboard. > 4. It should be already visible that the plus sign is a bit too small and > thick-ish looking. > 5. Export as PDF. OpenSymbol is included. > > Current behavior: The plus sign is taken from the set of OpenSymbol. > > Expected behavior: The plus sign is taken from the set of Minion Pro. > > Platform (if different from the browser): > > Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 > Firefox/13.0.1 Same problem here, using version 3.6 on Windows, and version 3.5.4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bits). It doesn't matter the font I'm using to write my equations. Plus symbol doesn't match it: OpenSymbol is used instead. Any way to fix it?
(In reply to comment #0) > Created attachment 63932 [details] > Screenshot of the wrong plus sign, in contrast to an earlier version of the > document when it had worked > > Problem description: > The operators are always set in OpenSymbol, although the user has changed the > font settings to Minion Pro (shipped for free with Adobe Reader!)/ Liberation. > > Steps to reproduce: > 1. In math mode, change font in Math to Minion Pro for all entries, exactly > explained like here: http://help.libreoffice.org/Math/Fonts. For the "Sans" and > "Fixed" custom font, choose any font you like. > 2. Click 'Default' so all future formulae are set like this. > 3. Enter 'x + y', then the Escape key on your keyboard. > 4. It should be already visible that the plus sign is a bit too small and > thick-ish looking. > 5. Export as PDF. OpenSymbol is included. > > Current behavior: The plus sign is taken from the set of OpenSymbol. > > Expected behavior: The plus sign is taken from the set of Minion Pro. > > Platform (if different from the browser): > > Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 > Firefox/13.0.1 Dear Henrik: I think it is a duplicate of Bug 49547. Check it: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49547 Sadly, it seems that fix for it has not been released yet.
(In reply to comment #2) > Dear Henrik: I think it is a duplicate of Bug 49547. > Check it: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49547 > > Sadly, it seems that fix for it has not been released yet. Hi Roberto, thanks for getting back to me. Sorry for replying that late, but I had problems logging in on here. So yes, you are right indeed, it has been reported elsewhere and sadly not been fixed yet.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Dear Henrik: I think it is a duplicate of Bug 49547. > > Check it: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49547 > > > > Sadly, it seems that fix for it has not been released yet. > > Hi Roberto, thanks for getting back to me. Sorry for replying that late, but > I had problems logging in on here. So yes, you are right indeed, it has been > reported elsewhere and sadly not been fixed yet. Henrik: Don't worry about it. It's really good to see that there are users that care about L.O. Math (I feel Math does not receive the same attention level that Writer, Calc or Impress, maybe because not everybody needs to deal with math equations in their daily work). I have visited Bug 49547 today, and it seems to show some recent activity. Maybe, work to fix it will start soon. I'll post a comment informing that 51827 is probably related to that bug. Regards. Roberto.
Adding to this bug. It seems that there are inconsistency depending on OS. For example on a Server 2008 LibO versions 3.5.1.2 and 3.6.3.2 show a nice square root sign, but versions 3.6.2.2 and 3.6.4.1 on a Windows 8 machine show "broken" square root sign. It stays this way even when exporting to PDF. PDF fonts show that in addition to Times it uses OpenSymbol. "+" and "-" signs also trigger usage of OpenSymbol font, but they don't look "off". I guess its because it consists of √ and a — symbol and they don't match exactly in some cases.
In my opinion the problem is less concerned with selection of text fonts to math operations (what is generally a risky approach), and more with need of correct glyphs in math fonts. In the current OpenSymbol font (ver. 102.2 as reported by FontForge) coming with LO 3.6.3, the glyphs: plus u+002b, plus-mns u+00b1, minus u+2212, and maybe others, do not create visually consistent collection. On the other side, OpenSymbol ver. 2.3.4, that was distributed with Oracle OpenOffice 3.3, had these glyphs consistent. See also: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=113521 (CLOSED, FIXED, 2010). Isn't it that older buggy version of the OpenSymbol font has been included into LO distributions?
(In reply to comment #4) > Don't worry about it. It's really good to see that there are users that care > about L.O. Math (I feel Math does not receive the same attention level that > Writer, Calc or Impress, maybe because not everybody needs to deal with math > equations in their daily work). > > I have visited Bug 49547 today, and it seems to show some recent activity. > Maybe, work to fix it will start soon. I'll post a comment informing that > 51827 is probably related to that bug. > > Regards. > > Roberto. Hi Roberto. Thanks for the cross-reply and the linkback on the other post. I appreciate the activity / support.
The fix I found is described here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49547#c5
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 49547 ***