https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161378
Bug ID: 161378
Summary: Improve/create visibility for font lists in the UI
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
The ODF format supports [1] setting not not just single fonts, but lists of
fallback font families, so that if some of the families are not available with
the appropriate features on the system, the next list item would be chose. This
is intended to make font choices more robust for display on systems which don't
have the same installed fonts as the author's.
In fact, the list notation can be used for all aspects of a font, so that it's
not just a fallback among families, but among complete font descriptions.
Now, here's the UI situation, as I see it:
* The UI does not represent the nature of the font info as a list of (tuples
of) items - even when the current selection actually has non-degenerate list
(i.e. more than 1 item).
* One can type in multiple font families, separated by a semicolon - but not
all (and perhaps not any) other aspects of the font. For example, if one types
"12;11" as the font size, this is replaced with the maximum value, 999.9 pt,
for some reason.
* The font family combo-box always (AFAICT) shows lists of font-families as
missing or existing based on the first item on the list.
* There is no mechanism for collapsing and uncollapsing the list in the family
combo-box, to show only the first item, or only the first available item.
* There is no mechanism for scrolling the list in the family combo-box.
I am not suggesting any specific action be taken, but I am suggesting that
_some_ action be taken to make it possible for users who need it actually to
work with font fallback lists.
[1]
https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/OpenDocument-v1.3-part3-schema.html#attribute-svg_font-family
; and that directs you to:
https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS2-20080411/fonts.html#font-family
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