Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

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.



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