https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146291

--- Comment #9 from Mike Kaganski <[email protected]> ---
Thinking about providing a used-in-the-document-but-missing font in the font
list, I suppose that it shouldn't be done for *every* such font, only for some
selection.

The problem is: no matter how we try to show to user that the font there in the
list is the *missing* one, it will inevitably be used by inexperienced users as
if it were an existing font. Namely, users would format their texts with that
font, *and imagine that what they see is what they get* - not realizing that
what they see is actually some substitution. And the important thing is: the
*quality* of substitution would be completely unpredictable.

So I suggest, if this is to be implemented, to only include those missing
fonts, that have either user-defined explicit substitution entries, or built-in
substitution rules - like those known metrically compatible pairs. That way,
user would see those fonts that are known to provide compatible text layout
(built-in case), or at least user-defined substitution tells that the user
knows what they do.

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