Janet M. Swisher wrote:
I don't have any problem with TNR on RHEL 4. It formats fine for printing as well.Daniel Carrera wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Let's see what Jean and Janet say.
I was not around when Times New Roman was chosen, so I can't give you a justification for it. It might have been motivated by wanting to use a font that would be available on most platforms. However, as you point out, using a font that is installed with OOo also achieves that goal. (I confess that I don't know which fonts are installed by OOo; on my WinXP machine they are dumped into one font folder, and I don't know which ones were installed by which software.)
But in any event, you can always just change the fonts yourself. You can have your own template, and pick the fonts you refer.I agree. As long as you use the same names for the styles, loading a new template into a document is a breeze. And you can modify your template to meet the needs of your audience.
I think this would be the best idea, regardless of what Jean and Janet do. I say that because it's impossible to make one template that will work well for all the languages. It's better to have a different template for each localle.
It is definitely useful to know that TNR looks bad on Linux. I'm curious to hear opinions from other Unix users. How does the font of our guides look on your platform, compared to what you've seen on Windows or Mac? (If you're not a visually-oriented person, you might not have noticed or cared.)
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:48:35PM +0200, Thomas Hackert wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
during my translation of some of your nice works I have seen, that there are a couple of guides which use "Times New Roman" for "OOoTableText", "OOoTextBody" and the like. Is there any regulation or something which prescribes this, but which I have not found? Could this be changed in the template (if it is there) or in the document to a font which is installed with OOo like "OpenSymbol", "Bitstream Vera" or the like (as an proponent of OpenSource I would really prefer this ... ;) )?
I am asking this because I am using a Linux distribution here, where these guides look really awful and I would like to be on the save side to change the fonts to - say - "Bitstream Vera Serif" or so ... ;)
Bitstream Vera Serif would at least be in the same font family as our headings (which use Bitstream Vera Sans), and therefore designed to harmonize with them. But Bitstream Vera Serif is quite a bit "wider" than Times New Roman (that is, it takes up more horizontal space for the same characters), so if we switched, we might need to adjust the point size, line width, and leading. All these factors affect each other; if you just swap the font, you may not get a good-looking result (unless you're lucky).
Linda
