[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 92657] Questionable Default for Bullet Sizing

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92657

--- Comment #30 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> ---
(In reply to Frank from comment #28)
> (In reply to Khaled Hosny from comment #21)
>
> Khaled:
>
> When you say "This was never the case on Linux, and no longer the case on
> other platforms in 5.3; we have full control over the text layout and font
> fallback." it isn't clear to me what you mean by "this."
The text I quoted above my reply, namely the “…seems to use OS services…” part.

> I was referring to undesirable font substitutions made while using Writer on
> Linux, which happens quite regularly and is rather easy to demonstrate by
> choosing a font for some passage that is known to have glyphs/characters
> required and then saving the file as either an .fodt or a pdf. These can be
> examined (in a text editor or Acrobat Reader respectively to see which fonts
> were actually used). I do suspect that how the fonts reported their
> capabilities has something to do with this, but I take pains to select the
> fonts carefully.
This might be a result from having three different font settings; for
“Western”, “CTL” and “Asian” (in quotation marks because I find these terms
questionable, but I digress). If you go to Format → Character → Font, you
should see three different font selection widgets (if you have both “CTL” and
“Asian” enabled). When LibreOffice detects that you switched to script that it
categorizes as, say, CTL, it will use the CTL font and so on. I’m not saying
this is ideal but it is the way things are right now.

> In the case of Thai, for instance, even with all the CTL settings set up for
> that, this happened to me just last week with one of the fonts in the tlwg
> group (the "official" set of fonts used by the Thai government, although I
> don't recall which one at the moment).
>
> And particularly with Thai, I just noticed today that with the most recent
> release (5.2.3.2) the diacritic vowels are no longer rendered correctly in
> Writer using ANY font; I even went back and opened some earlier documents
> that displayed and printed correctly in earlier versions and they don't
> display correctly either.
Please report any bugs or regressions you have, there were some changes in
earlier 5.2.x releases that caused regressions in text layout and have since
been reverted (see bug 103103).

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