On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 02:41:31PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 05:32:31PM +0100, Guillaume Munch wrote: > > Le 02/06/2016 07:07, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > > > Dear all, > > > > > > I have many system fonts installed (the command `fc-list | wc -l` > > > gives me 1595. Can anyone beat that?). When testing LyX's XeTeX > > > export with system fonts and various languages, it can be a little > > > annoying to find a font that has the necessary symbols. What I > > > usually do is e.g. > > > > > > fc-list :lang=he > > > > > > to list the fonts that support Hebrew. > > > > > > As Xe/LuaTeX are becoming more popular, I wonder if it would be worth > > > it to make this easier for users. The way we can do this is to have a > > > checkbox that says "restrict to document language". For example, the > > > screenshot shows all fonts that support Hebrew. I produced the > > > screenshot using the attached patch. > > > > > > So all we would need to do is map our list of document languages to > > > the WritingSystem enum, whose values are listed in the table here: > > > http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qfontdatabase.html#WritingSystem-enum Could > > > we do that by adding another field in lib/languages? > > > > > > Does anyone think this would be worth the work? I don't actually > > > write anything except for English so I don't know. Maybe the way we > > > have things set up now is not a bother at all. > > > > > > Scott > > > > > > > Dear Scott, > > > > You are right, LyX deserves a better font selection dialog. I had a > > quick look: there is the QFontDialog widget which has a writing system > > selection menu. See https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qfontdialog.html and > > qtbase/examples/widgets/dialogs/standarddialogs/. > > > > The lyx font selection widgets could trigger this dialog instead of the > > drop-down menu. This should be easy to do. Note that this would also fix > > other issues, such as not being able to select specific fonts. For > > instance it is currently impossible to select Source Sans Pro Light. > > > > It does not seem to be possible to initialise the dialog with a specific > > writing system unlike what you suggest. If you find the motivation, you > > could implement a custom font selection widget based on > > qtbase/src/widgets/dialogs/qfontdialog.cpp (no size selection, > > defaultable writing system, no underlining, etc.). Another idea is to > > make the widget into a button (QToolButton) that, in addition to opening > > the font dialog when pressed, also has a drop-down menu showing the > > recently used fonts. That would be another way to make font selection > > more convenient. > > > > But, for a quick solution that also addresses other issues, my advice would > > be to make the button open the QFontDialog. > > > > Thanks for taking a look and for the comments, Guillaume. It might be > nice to do as you suggest and move to QFontDialog. Whenever we can rely > on Qt it seems like that is the way to go. The preview widget contained > in that dialog is especially nice. I think what I'll do for now is just > open an enhancement request and post our ideas there. I do not want to > undertake such a project at this time. > > Scott
I forgot to say that the preview widget would be especially nice in our text style dialog. Scott
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