fonts in LibreOffice

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 24 06:28:47 UTC 2012


On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:09:52PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> Hi guys;
> 
> I noticed the fonts were unbundled in the LibreOffice port and dependencies
> were added instead. I had thought of doing something similar for OpenOffice
> but I have doubts about the fonts installed through ports: are we sure all
> the font packages run fontconfig or are users expected to manually add
> the path for the fonts in XOrg configure file? (just wondering, I recall all
> font ports tend to handle that differently).

Well with font I'm nerver really 100% confident, it unbundled them like what I
see in most linux packaging of libreoffice, just try it and didn't notice any
difference
> 
> While here, I noticed an issue: the linuxlibertine fonts we carry are 
> outdated
Yeah, I have been a bit lazy in some parts

> (I know, I updated it) but furthermore, LibreOffice bundles a specific 
> version
> of the linuxlibertine fonts that are made to work with libgraphite:
> 
> http://numbertext.org/linux/

I was planning to add them,

> 
> I have no idea if such fonts work well with other applications.

me neither
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Pedro.

best regards,
Bapt
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