[rhelv6-list] OpenOffice Math Ceases to Cause Symbols to Be Rendered after RHEL Up-Date

[John Haxby]

Second attempt: why haven't we got a reply-to header in the list yet?  All
the other RH lists have this.  Sigh.

On 14 December 2010 17:24, Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian <Mc_Kiernan at oeconomist.com
> wrote:

> Prior to my migrating from RHEL 5.5 to 6.0, when I used characters U+22b3,
> U+22b5, U+227b, U+227f, U+2280 in formulae coded within OpenOffice Math (the
> formula editor) of OpenOffice 3.2.1, the document displayed these when
> viewed in OpenOffice, and an exported PDF displayed these when viewed with
> Acrobat readers.
>
> Now, when the very same version of OpenOffice is used in RHEL 6.0, these
> character becomes invisible both in .ODTs and in .PDFs.  This problem
> obtains, in fact, whether I use the distribution of OpenOffice supplied by
> OpenOffice.org or that provided by Red Hat.
>
> I don't know whether this problem obtains from changes in fontconfig,  from
> a change in the installed set of fonts, or from some other source.
>
>

I think it's a straightforward bug in OOo: those characters are perfectly OK
outside a formula, and they're visible when you're editing the formula,
they're just not visible when it's rendered on the page.

jch
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