Missing font for self added Math symbols

[schnedan]

Years ago I added two math symbols for my formulas and when I open these documents only the command [%xyz] is shown.

I crated these documents on windows, so these fonts might be missing on linux.

Is there a possibility to

• lookup which font was used back then
• which unicode was selected, so I can search other fonts for similar symbols

[ajlittoz]

Please, according to site rules, retag to replace common by math. Press twice Enter to exit tag mode.

[schnedan]

Well, my idea of using common is that all document types where you can add formulas are affected, so common sounds more logic to me

[ajlittoz]

No, because the addition of a “custom” character is done in Math. You then insert the result of Math, the formula, anywhere you want. The %command is valid only in Math.

[anon73440385]

Hello,

yes - there is a way by inspecting settings.xml, which is part of the ZIP container of the Math .odf file.

• unzip the math .odf file
• Open the file settings.xml and search for the name you once defined using an editor (should be able to format the XML data into a readable form; or use xmlstarlet fo settings.xml
• Search for the name you defined once
• Go down and look for <config:config-item config:name="FontName" config:type="string">

Example (showing that the font is OpenSymbol for my test definition of xyz)

Hope that helps.

[schnedan]

Thx,… that worked out… it was StarSymbol (what else ), you know what is the libreoffice replacement for that? guess it still exists

[anon73440385]

I’d guess “OpenSymbol” - but I don’t know.

[schnedan]

yes, the math dialog states opensymbol, but I can not locate any font with that name in my filesystem…

Maybe a bonus Question: is there a way to distribute self defined math symbols - they seem to only exist in the one document where you define em…

[anon73440385]

On my openSUSE Leap 15.2 system using native TDF packages (not distribution packages)

user@system:> find  /opt/libreoffice7.0/ -name "opens*"
/opt/libreoffice7.0/program/resource/common/fonts/opens___.ttf
/opt/libreoffice7.0/share/fonts/truetype/opens___.ttf

[anon73440385]

they seem to only exist in the one document where you define em…

No - they exist in the LibreOffice user profile in file resgistrymodifications.xcu (Example here: FLETTER)

<item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Math/SymbolList">
        <node oor:name="FLETTER" oor:op="replace">
            <prop oor:name="Set" oor:op="fuse">
                <value>Greek</value>
            </prop>
            <prop oor:name="Char" oor:op="fuse">
                <value>8497</value>
            </prop>
            <prop oor:name="Predefined" oor:op="fuse">
                <value>false</value>
            </prop>
            <prop oor:name="FontFormatId" oor:op="fuse">
                <value>Id1</value>
            </prop>
        </node>
    </item>

[schnedan]

Yes you are right… its /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/fonts/truetype/opens___.ttf