On 08/03/15 20:44, CVAlkan wrote: > A few readers suggested gathering tips on this subject in one place, but if > that ever happened, I'm unaware of it.
It probably didn't. > 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 This is a side effect of release early and release often. The theory is that the changes, especially things that are broken, is reported to the appropriate party, in a timely manner. The practice is that the people who are most affected by the breakage, don't have any idea what to report. > 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 This is where one is usually told: "Read the source, Luke. Read the source". Advice that doesn't help, when one has no idea what to look for, or even where to look for it. > (and by that I mean spacing, kerning, etc.) has become screwy, I guess you > can suspect what I'm tempted to do. Ironically, you might be able to solve that yourself. The fix is an extension called "typographic Toolbar". You'll have to rewrite it for Thai fonts --- which probably is a good idea for various other reasons. > I apologize (really) if this sounds petulant, but is there any source for > documentation on how this genre of stuff is supposed to work? AFAIK, not that non-programmers can understand. > And which of the substitution mechanisms are best suited for which purposes? None of them. jonathon -- 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
