On 09/09/2013 11:52 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > On 09/09/2013 10:57 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 09/09/13 12:57, Virgil Arrington wrote: >> [cut] >> >>> However, LO has one wonderful advantage. The free font, Linux >>> Libertine G, has many expert effects, and LO can access them all. >>> It's an excellent typeface, and so far, the latest LO stable version, >>> 4.0.5, seems to work very well with it. (Despite its "Linux" name, >>> the font works just as well in Windows.) >>> >>> http://www.numbertext.org/linux/ (Libertine has an equally excellent >>> companion sans-serif font, Linux Bolinium G) >>> >>> Using the advanced features requires adding extensions to the font >>> name, such as "Linux Libertine G:onum=1" to use old style numbers. >>> Various extensions are separated by the ampersand (&). It can be a >>> little cumbersome at first, but there is an excellent guide at: >>> >>> www.numbertext.org/linux/fontfeatures.pdf >>> >>> The Typography Toolbar extension makes its use easier. >>> >>> http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/typo >> >> This looks very useful, but I note that it hasn't been updated since >> 2010 and OOo (LO?) 3.4. Is it known to function with LO 4.1? >> >> Peter HB >> > > I'll speak from some level of technological ignorance. I think the > font itself has not been updated in a while, but, what makes the font > work with LO and AOO is the Graphite engine. This is where I get real > ignorant, but I've found that as LO and AOO are upgraded, they work > better with the Linux Libertine G fonts. For example, there is a > switch in the font (itlc=2), which provides proper alignment of Italic > text next to Roman text. You'll notice that the "fontfeatures.pdf" > website says this switch doesn't work with LO 3.4. That is true; it > doesn't. And, up to last week, it didn't work for me with LO 3.6.7. > However, I upgraded to LO 4.0.5 and, voila, the switch works. Also, in > prior versions of LO, Linux Libertine seemed to cause some crashes, > but I haven't experienced a crash since LO 3.6. I don't think this is > due to changes in the font, but rather improvements in LO itself. (I > won't upgrade to LO 4.1.x until "x" becomes 5 or higher). > > Perhaps someone else with knowledge about how LO and Graphite work > together can chime in. I just know that every successive version of LO > works better with the Libertine G and Biolinium G fonts, much to my > delight. > > It has become my default LO font for both my Windows and Linux > partitions on my dual boot system. > > Virgil >
I am a font person, and do not use the Libertine and Biolinium fonts often. But I agree with your statement that each version of LO is displaying and printing better than the last one, some some people. The "graphics" engine that renders the fonts is improving. I too use LO for both my Linux and Windows systems. I have not installed any non-trial version of MSO since MSO2003. As a font person, I use a lot of "specialty fonts" over the years. So the better the package works with fonts, the better it is for me. I use to have to take some fonts and change them to JPG files just to use them in document. Now that is almost a thing of the past, depending how complex the font actually is. As for not using those two font "families", well, I have over 14 GB of fonts in my font collection and I try to stay below 400 installed fonts at any time. We are talking about 40 font files for the two, if you included all of different "styles". So I am not installing most of them right now. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
