starmath, ObjectReplacements, export, word2003

[Caolán McNamara]

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 07:50 +0000, Yury wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> It's somehow quite difficult to get any attention here.

Sometimes no one "just knows" off the top of their head where the
various bits and pieces so someone has to invest time to have enough
information to assist. It can help to pare down text to the absolute
bare minimum to describe the problem.

> 1) Bibliography entries and index are exported incorrectly, word2003 opens
> the exported .DOC with blanks in place of those. It's issue 88697, and I
> have proposed a solution already (can use it in my local build, in fact). By
> the way, nobody commented on my patch attached to issue – was that some
> wrong thing to do on my part or something?

We're typically taking code submissions via gerrit
(https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/gerrit)

> 2.1) Immediately on open in word2003, the bitmap 'sits' too high in the text
> paragraph line in which its frame is placed.
> 

> one would need to know where the processing of starmath metafile used
> in formula/equation conversion is located in source. What file, what
> subroutine?

You can start in sw/source/filter/ww8/wrtww8gr.cxx
SwWW8WrGrf::WriteGraphicNode, see case sw::Frame::eOle and
GetGraphicFromObject and the code around there.

C.