Bug 54358 - FORMATTING: Font should size to the size of surrounding text and it doesnt, it always defaults to 12pt
Summary: FORMATTING: Font should size to the size of surrounding text and it doesnt, i...
Status: NEW
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formula Editor (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.0 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Formula-Editor
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Reported: 2012-09-01 18:25 UTC by dhaggs1
Modified: 2020-06-22 03:49 UTC (History)
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Description dhaggs1 2012-09-01 18:25:03 UTC 
Problem description: 
If the code for a formula is entered into a text document, and then the formula editor command is issued to convert the code to a formula, the formula base font size should match the size of the original text.  Instead, it defaults to base font size of 12pt.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Enter formula code into a text document (e.g. "3 + 5 cdot X")
2. Select the formula coding
3. Click on the formula editor icon if it is on your toolbar


Current behavior:
The preceeding steps results in the code turning into a formula with a base font size of 12pt.
Expected behavior:
The constructed formula should be created with a base font size that matches the size of the original formula code text.

Platform (if different from the browser): 
Windows Vista
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:15.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/15.0
Comment 1 Regina Henschel 2012-09-02 18:21:40 UTC 
That would be a good edit enhancement, which would work without changing file format.
For a more general approach see bug 32419.
Comment 2 nicol.harper 2015-06-15 17:01:21 UTC 
I am finding this bug too in the 4.2.8.2 release.
Comment 3 nicol.harper 2015-06-15 17:11:50 UTC 
(In reply to nicol.harper from comment #2)
> I am finding this bug too in the 4.2.8.2 release.

It only occurs when the document is a word .doc document, not when it is .odt.
Comment 4 Justin L 2017-02-03 07:35:05 UTC 
Still a problem in 5.4.  (Unsure how to find/add the formula toolbar button in older versions of LO (like 3.5) - but it is there by default now in 5.4).
Probably should be closed as a duplicate of the bug in comment 1, which is labelled as an easy-hack.
Comment 5 Roman Kuznetsov 2018-07-12 11:05:04 UTC 
(In reply to dhaggs1 from comment #0)
> Problem description: 
> If the code for a formula is entered into a text document, and then the
> formula editor command is issued to convert the code to a formula, the
> formula base font size should match the size of the original text.  Instead,
> it defaults to base font size of 12pt.

> Current behavior:
> The preceeding steps results in the code turning into a formula with a base
> font size of 12pt.
> Expected behavior:
> The constructed formula should be created with a base font size that matches
> the size of the original formula code text.

What should happening if you change size of basic text in your document? Font size in all formulas should change also?

There is an extension https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/formatting-of-all-math-formulas for changing font and font size for all formulas in your document