https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161378
--- Comment #14 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #13) Bottom line: I am thinking of giving a talk on this matter, and font substitution more generally, in this year's LOCon. > The concept font family is not clear, maybe inspired by > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-family. It is perhaps not clear to many of us, but it is well-know to people who write CSS; and it is mentioned and used in the ODF standard, see: https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/os/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-os-part3-schema.html#__RefHeading__1418066_253892949 and: https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.3/os/part3-schema/OpenDocument-v1.3-os-part3-schema.html#__RefHeading__1418066_253892949 where the properties are borrowed/adopted from the XSL and SVG specifications respectively. For a bit of background and history on the terminology, have a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font "In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface[/font family]". and then also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typeface "A typeface (or font family) is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display." Regardless - this bug is not about the terminology. > Users probably > don't think about families but rather font names, ie. replace the font Aptos > by Bierstadt. Aptos is a "font family", a.k.a. a "typeface". And that is what users think about. Yes, the vernacular use sometimes mixes up fonts and font families. > Of course we need to widen this in case the font Bierstadt is > not available but it's unclear what users expect, where to make the > configuration, and how to give proper feedback. This bug is not about _users_' expectations, but document _authors_' expectations (and specifications). As I mentioned in the design meeting, there are different fallback mechanisms; and this bug is about the one which the document author controls (and can be different for different pieces of content in the same document.) > We don't had the expertise > in the group, and apparently the overall interest is low. If we want to: * Edit HTML documents * Edit styled XML documents * Improve the robustness of users' employ of rare font families then we should develop this interested... Regardless, I will try to find the time to make some concrete suggestions and maybe even creake some mockups. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
