oowriter problems

Hi gang,

I've just confirmed something that has been really pissing me off. I
used the latest l2r from svn to convert a paper I'm working on. It
looks great - the figures now appear much more sensibly, the tables
look better, most of the inline special symbols are fine. Much
improvement over the previous stable release. I checked this with
oowriter, and it displays all my gammas and sqrt sybmbols, very nice.

So then I add a single 'X' to the file and resave it, still in rtf.
I follow this with a call to diff on the original file and the
modified version, with the single additional character added. I get
pages and pages and pages of differences! What's more, when I reopen
the file all the gammas are gone, and random other bits get garbled.

This has caused no end of grief as I painstakingly correct the
latex2rtf output in oowriter, send it to my supervisor who opens the
document in Word, and then complains to me that it looks like crap.

What gives? Why does oowriter need to break files that it can read
just fine? Is this something we could fix at the l2r side? I'm going
to go download ABIWord and see if it isn't any better.

Tyler

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