I still experience this error on Kubuntu 9.04+OOo 3.1.1 (as I had on all
previous versions of OOo).
The quality of equation import did not change significantly since I
started using OOo (2.* versions). Some equations are imported correctly
(only very simple ones), some have wrong sizes (stretched horizontally,
for example), some are shifted (no correct baseline alignment, this
problem is almost universal) or surrounded by excess margins (this
problem seems to be at least partially solved in v3.1.1), some cannot be
opened because of the 'General error' mentioned above. In the same time
all these equations are displayed and opened for editing correctly in MS
Word+Equation/MathType. This allows one to conclude that the OLE objects
are not damaged.
Averagely complicated formulas are imported from Equation/MathType to
OOo incorrectly: they cannot be correctly read and cannot be edited.
Typical problems include:
1. integral sign and its limits
2. sum (sigma) sign and its limits
3. miscellaneous subscripts, superscripts and sings above the variable letter
(hats, dots, tildas and so on). Only subscripts and superscripts which contain
only digits or Latin letters are imported (rather often) correctly. For
example, I have never seen a correctly imported formula like {\tilde\pi}_1^+
(latex equivalent). This formula can be easily created in both MS
Equation/MathType and in OOo Math. But it cannot be imported from MS Equation
to OOo Math.
4. square and figure brackets including those ones used to type a system of
equations
This behavior limits OpenOffice applicability to create scientific
articles for those journals and conferences which require Microsoft Word
format. One can argue that contemporary organizations (publishers,
conference committees, etc.) should not insist on using proprietary
formats, but many still do and this is our reality.
For the same reason it is also almost impossible to use OpenOffice to
read scientific articles created earlier in Microsoft Word.
Is it possible to expect any fixes in the nearest time or any comment or
recommendations?
What I did not try yet:
1. Matrices
2. Export from OOo Writer+Math to MS Word+Equation/Mathtype
I cat comment nothing on this functionality.
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[upstream] [3.2] Mathtype Equations give 'General Error'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/384489
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