[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 52225] New: Greek symbols have switched back to non-italic

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52225

             Bug #: 52225
           Summary: Greek symbols have switched back to non-italic
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 3.5.4 release
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Formula Editor
        AssignedTo: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: john at curioussymbols.com


I have a large document, about six years old, that I continue to work on using
LibreOffice. It is a technical document with many formulae/formulas.

As of LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I have experienced a problem
with the greek symbols in my equations. Whereas they previously rendered nicely
with a good baseline, font and italic style, they now render in a font
(OpenSymbol) which on my system appears to have messed-up metrics and in
non-italic style. This looks bad, in my eyes, and represents an incompatibility
since previous versions render the same equation in different styles.

Two things are now required:
(1) a method for changing my symbol catalog to use the symbol and typestyle
that I prefer en-masse, for all the greek symbols at once.
(2) permanent changes to restore the correct historical behaviour, to ensure
that old documents render as previously implemented.

If there was a deliberate reason for the change to the math symbol catalog then
this needs to be explained somewhere, and a script or somesuch needs to be
provide to change all old formula eg from "%alpha" to "%ialpha" or whatever the
'new standard' is going to be.

I note that in all high-quality textbooks, the default for greek symbols in
math formulae is italics, and also this is the default in Latex rendering. The
non-italic style is very non-standard.

An example of the wrong metrics in the default math symbol catalog can be seen
(at least on my system) in the formula "1 over %alpha + 1 over a" -- the alpha
and the 'a' are not aligned on a common baseline.

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