Is there a possibility to:
naturally, the formula editor will maintain the ability to manually modify font size (e.g. post
I would have guessed not. Did you look at @Regina 's macros in Easy way to change fonts of all mathematical formulas (OLE) linked from your link?
not quite what I am looking for
when a paragraph (or any “chunk of text” for that matter) is selected and the font size is increased/decreased - I expect that all the letters and symbols in the selection including equations be affected (font size will be increased/decreased)
and additionally, that the initial font size of the formulas be set to the font size of previous characters (context sensitive)
Take a look at tdf#54358 (Font should size to the size of surrounding text and it doesnt, it always defaults to 12pt).
The bug (2012) link from @LeroyG has a link to an extension which does what the macros do but in a graphical interface.
That is a workaround too
It’s amazing that this is open since 2012
Equally amazing is the fact that people developed macro workarounds instead of committing a solution
I’ll try and have a look at the code, perhaps I can submit a pull request
The current situation is a deal breaker for me when it comes to technical writing
Here is another extension that might assist Writer2LaTeX » Extensions
This enables you to typeset your Writer documents with LaTeX, which does a better job typesetting text,in particular text with formulas.