Re: [libreoffice-users]

Michael, there's a LOT interesting in this comment.  Have you considered going on the record in the bug 
35538 comments <https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35538>?  At least you should be 
on the CC List.

On 2025-03-09 18:21, Michael H wrote:
> The Opentype specification accepts 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800,
> 900 as weights, as well as "normal" and "italic" for skew. Additionally
> "bold" for weight, and "italic" for skew will produce a 'faux' font face by
> internally modifying the nearest cousin. These work in the program if you
> manually edit the xml layer, but there's no interface to display or select
> them.
>
> Frankly, Libreoffice is a dinosaur not supporting at least the 9 even
> hundred numbered values in the interface.  These numbers do work in the
> stylesheets if you manually type the opentype out, so the import filter
> and rendering are there and functioning, but the interface is still stuck
> in the 90s "four options per fontname" thinking. Yet the interface
> designers continue to tweak 'dark mode' instead of substantive feature
> additions.
>
> (note, I do like and rely on the "4 options" faux bold and faux italics,
> but there should be more levels (at least 6 including light, but all 9 are
> common today,) and I would appreciate control of a "faux" or opentype
> variable numeric "weight" 0-999, and a "skew angle" more, but I'm not
> arguing for the loss of that little control that is present in the current
> interface.
>
> Additionally, without a 'skew' variable input that accepts backslants,  a
> "backslant" option is needed in the interface (and in the OTF spec, which
> means 27 possible 'faces' for a font family, without considering
> (expanded/condensed) spectrum for width, or (caption/display) spectrum for
> weighting of minor strokes, or (lower/higher) x height spectrum for
> density/typography styles. All of these are relatively simple to code
> (harfbuzz already has the ability) just no support in the interface, except
> the XML doesn't support a skew number or backslant.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM Robert Großkopf <robert@familiegrosskopf.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi *,
> >
> > you could only choose 4 typefaces in LibreOffice. If there are more
> > typefaces for a font the font will be shown with this different typefaces.
> >
> > Example: DejaVu Sans
> > There are 9 typefaces available:
> > Don't know if this is right in English:
> > Narrow typestyles, normal typestyles and light typestales.
> >
> > So in Writer I see DejaVu Sans 3 times:
> > DejaVu Sans
> > DejaVu Sans Condensed
> > DejaVu Sans light
> >
> > Might be this is the same behavior with "Roboto". "Medium" would be the
> > same as "DejaVu Sans" and I could choose 4 styles for "Medium".
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Robert
> > --
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> >
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