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

[Mc Kiernan Daniel Kian]

On 12/15/2010 03:27 AM, John Haxby 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.

I have file an issue report (116132) with OpenOffice:

  <URL:http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=116132>

The developer looking at he issue reports that it is not reproduced on 
Solaris or on Suse 11.

I ask others on this list to see if the problem is reproducable on 
their systems (try rendering

  a`≻`b

in an OpenOffice document), and if so then to chime-in at the report, 
in order to move the status from "unconfirmed".

My thanks to those of you who do.