Documentation Team: Some time ago, I provided an answer to a user who was having trouble using the Thai language and Thai fonts in LibreOffice; that thread can be seen in the Users section at http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/saving-documents-written-in-Thai-tt4088195.html#a4088266.
I was only able to answer this because I happened to have spent hours trolling the web to get my own Thai documents to work effectively in Writer. A few readers suggested gathering tips on this subject in one place, but if that ever happened, I'm unaware of it. Of course, with each new release of Writer, something changes (usually breaks), and I now have troubles displaying and printing Writer documents with certain fonts that worked well a year ago. If I actually understood what was going on, it might not be that much of a pain to cure the problem but, with the apparent lack of documentation for this whole subject of font rendering, changes in justification and hyphenation using the same font from version to version, inconsistent support for open type features and/or graphite features - I'm just thrashing around in the dark. It seems like these features should either just be removed or implemented correctly (or at least not inconsistently). I've already had to switch one large document and several smaller ones to W*** on W****** because Writer no longer handles graphics in tables (well, it was acknowledged as a new bug [86578 and others] after enough people reported it, but no activity seems to be taking place). If I now have to switch another group of documents away from Writer because font handling (and by that I mean spacing, kerning, etc.) has become screwy, I guess you can suspect what I'm tempted to do. A new icon set is a nice thing, but ... I'm using 64 bit Ubuntu 14.04LTS, and I know the font handling routines in the various operating systems (and even different display managers) have differing capabilities and behaviors, but the issues I see all seem to occur only in LibreOffice. If there were some documentation available I would be able to tell if I'm just setting things up improperly for recent changes or experiencing a "bug." I apologize (really) if this sounds petulant, but is there any source for documentation on how this genre of stuff is supposed to work? Or: What OS libraries are recommended? Which display and/or printing libraries should be installed or removed? Are there third party kerning or justification routines that can be substituted or is everything done internally in LibreOffice? What should be done in templates, and what should be done in Styles? And which of the substitution mechanisms are best suited for which purposes? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Fonts-Font-Substitutions-Languages-Graphite-Justification-etc-tp4142599.html Sent from the Documentation mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
