Italics not shown properly in OpenOffice

[Andreas Davour]

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Frank Staals wrote:

> Andreas Davour wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> I have a strange problem in OpenOffice 1.1.4 with italics. Text formatted 
>> as italics doesn't show up in italics on screen. If I cut and paste som 
>> text from an old document it hows up properly. This is very strange, and a 
>> quite severe bug - if that's what it is.
>> 
>> I searched the list and found no mentioning of it. Google found a 
>> bugrapport for some debianthingie, but that was from 2003.
>> 
>> Is it my system that's misbehaving, or OO? Is there something I can do to 
>> fix this? Anyone?
>
> Hm I found out there was a bug in OO.o 2 BETA when opening .xml files where 
> bold and italic text were used, maybe its the same sort of problem ? this is 
> the reported issue:
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45111
>
> If it is like that I tink it is a problem in OO.o itself

It might be part of the same problem. I see the problem with involving 
any MS documents, though, so it isn't covered by that bug report.

I didn't think it was just FreeBSD misbehaving. I'll send a report to OO 
about it.

/andreas

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