There is quite often arguements in the Ubuntu community regarding
fonts and the copyright that Microsoft holds for work that is made
using them. I don't think Microsoft would ever think about using this
copyright, yet they still persist with it and do not release their
fonts in an open way. You will find that Arial, TNR and Courier New
are read as 'Liberation Sans', 'Liberation Serif', 'Liberation Mono' ,
in Linux. Not sure about Macx,
The Liberation font set was an outcome of one of these arguements
across multiple communities that had been raging for some time.
I love the fonts, I think they are on par with MS fonts for screen
reading, I haven't really looked at printed typeface with them.
I think we should be using open licence fonts and the following links
are what I believe are the best of the bunch GPL Fonts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_(font)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%2B_Fonts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine
The document that I sent out was simply a demonstration of what it
could look like.
Being new to the documentation team I don't want to push my views too
far and respect the work that has come before me, it is amazing how
much is there.
I think the larger Documentation team must discuss the numbered
outline before pushing it any further.
Also are we still going to have OOoAuthor trademarks on the
documentation or are we happy to associate the LibreOffice
documentation entirely with 'The Document Foundation' even if some
development is occurring on OOoAuthors?