https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173659
Bug ID: 173659
Summary: Consistently referring to typefaces as such in the UI
(and not as "font" or "font name")
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: minor
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
'font' and 'typeface' are two terms with different meanings. Quoting the
explanatory document here [1]:
> A typeface, also known as a font family, is a design of letters, numbers,
> and other symbols, created with unified stylistic features. It forms the
> visual aspect of the written word that determines how text is presented
> across different media. Each typeface is a collection of glyphs, each of
> which represents an individual letter, number, punctuation mark, or other
> symbol. Most typefaces include variations in size (e.g., 24 point), weight
> (e.g., light, bold), slope (e.g., italic), width (e.g., condensed), and so
> on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font.
Thus, for example:
- "Open Sans" is a typeface (or a font family)
- "Open Sans Light Italic, 12pt" is a font
However:
* The UNO command for choosing the typeface is called ".uno:CharFontName"
* The combo-box on the formatting toolbar for that command has the tooltip
"Font Name"
* Same for the combo-box on the Properties deck of the sidebar.
* The list-box in the CS, PS, and Format > Character... , for choosing the
typeface, says "Family". That's not false, i.e. it is a choice of font family,
but it's inconsistent with other places.
* In some of the documentation, we see term mixups. For example, in
/help/en-US/text/shared/01/05020100.html we see "font name" used instead of
typeface, and "typeface" used instead of the font _variant_ (which the page
assumes is the choice of Bold yes/no and Italic yes/no).
* If you search for "typeface" in the help for Writer, you find just the one
page I mentioned; if you search for "font", you find dozens of results.
... and I don't know what the situation is like in our source code.
I suggest we change both our UI, our documentation and perhaps eventually our
source code, to use 'typeface' consistently; and first and foremost, let's
change this in the formatting toolbar, the sidebar, the NBB, and the
CS/PS/FormatChar dialogs.
[1] :
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/websites-apps/difference-between-typeface-and-font/
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