Re: [libreoffice-users] right-clicking Font list options not showing all my installed fonts

["Manfred J. Krause" <courrier.oou.fr.mjk@googlemail.com>]

Hi,

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:55 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
>
> Font formatting issue
>
> You highlight your text, then right-click
>
> The you choose the "Font" option.
>
> For me, when I go down the list, I do not go out of the A's for the font
> names.
>
> How many fonts is that list designed to deal with?

100 (max.), see:
OOo-Bug 61775 - Too Many Fonts in Context Menu; also context menu can
take many seconds to appear with too many fonts installed
→ https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=61775

> With all of the variations [bold, italic, bold italic, etc.] of the fonts
> and their file names, I have over 500 fonts installed on my default desktop
> computer.
>
> So I was wondering about how to show more fonts in that list.  For people
> that have a lot of fonts installed on their desktop, it looks like you are
> not able to see all of their font names in that shortened list.
>
> So, it there some reason there is a shortened ability there when the Font
> list "pull down box" allows all of the fonts I have does show up?  It seems
> like there is a possible problem here for some people.  It can cause me
> problems if I follow the instructions for doing font formatting in certain
> ways.  That right-click options show some options for font displaying, like
> overlines and other non-standard things that are not shown in the taskbar
> options for font formatting.  So if one part of that formatting system is
> limited, then can I trust that the other options will not cause issues later
> on for my documents?  I did find that if I formatted a text with the
> right-clicked overline and shadowed, I need to use the same right-clicking
> to remove it instead of using the normal taskbar formatting options.

You may add a comment to
Bug 34085 - [EDITING] [UI] List of fonts incomplete in context menu
→ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34085


mjk

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