https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95207
Adam Fontenot <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |adam.m.fontenot+docfo@gmail | |.com --- Comment #8 from Adam Fontenot <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 178797 --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=178797&action=edit libreoffice 7.3.1.3 showing the issue with fira sans This is a *major* pain for users with large font families, see e.g. the example given by the user of the marked-duplicate bug 140519. I'm adding to this to point out that this bug is not, as far as I can tell, limited to unusual or broken font families. It applies to every font family I've ever tried that has more than four styles or weights. In fact, you can test it yourself with an open source font, Fira Sans: https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans I've attached a screenshot showing what my fonts menu in the LibreOffice UI looks like with this font installed. Other applications that I've tried, including Inkscape, KDE's Font Management tool, and fontmanager.github.io, all show 3 font families for Fira Sans: Fira Sans, FS Compressed, and FS Condensed. Underlying libraries also have support for this: pango-list shows the same three families. The especially annoying thing is that LibreOffice interpolates an italic, bold, and bold-italic font for most of these "families", so the Fira Sans Light "family" has a simulated bold option - instead of switching to Fira Sans Bold! This all *feels* like something that might at one point have been a conscious design decision, to work around the fact that styles aren't exposed very well in the LibreOffice UI (as far as I know, nowhere but the character format window), so perhaps this was originally thought to be a workaround to allow users to more easily choose variant font styles? I think the correct UI solution to this would be to make a style / weight drop down that's separate from the font family selector. Then the font name selector can be used exclusively to present different font families. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
