The right way to fix this bug is to use several glyphs to draw the brace e.g. one glyph for the top, one for the middle and one for the bottom. The rest of the brace are two vertical lines that can easily be extended to arbitrary size (e.g. by repeating a glyph for vertical bar or drawing a line). In general, you need to use some specific mathematical fonts that contain the glyphs for the most important stretchy operators e.g. the STIX fonts.
There have been discussion on the LibreOffice mailing list about using STIX fonts as well as supporting the Open Type Math table (here, at least the stretchy variants/constructions would help). CC'ing Khaled Hosny. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827695 Title: [Upstream] bug in displaying scalable square brackets in math object Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Confirmed Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Confirmed Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release: 11.04 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-updates/main i386 Packages 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 3) When is expected to happen in LibreOffice Writer with embedded LO Math equation is the scalable square brackets look as they would in Word. 4) What happens instead is the top and bottom part of the bracket look like a square instead of a line pointing inwards towards the equation. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/827695/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
