Package: fontconfig Version: 2.8.0-2.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi,
there are some fonts installed on my system (and on other peoples' systems, too, I guess) that are useless for normal writing, e.g. ttf-lyx or ttf- opensymbol. These fonts do often merely contain mathematical or similar symbols but no normal letters. However, whenever I click on the font selector in OOo-writer or a similar application, these fonts appear there among the other "normal" fonts as if I would ever select them for writing. The truth is, whenever I want to include a non-letter symbol in my text, I choose the "Insert -> Special character ..." menu or paste the symbol from gucharmap, instead of learning which key is mapped to which symbol in these fonts. It would be nice if fontconfig provided a way to "tag" symbol-only fonts in order to distinguish them from normal fonts that are actually applicable for writing texts. Fonts tagged with this attribute could then be omitted from lists thsat are presented to the user to choose from for writing texts. Of course, this is definitely an upstream issue and applications would have to be adapted, but I think this will be very convenient for users. Best regards, Fabian -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages fontconfig depends on: ii fontconfig-config 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime fontconfig recommends no packages. Versions of packages fontconfig suggests: ii defoma 0.11.12 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
