Re: italic display of regular fonts in menu

2012-05-09 Thread Steve White
:41 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 14:38 +0200, Steve White wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Can anybody tell me why the names of a few font families, which have >> regular, italic, bold, and oblique styles, appears in the Writer's >> font list in italic

italic display of regular fonts in menu

2012-04-24 Thread Steve White
Hi! Can anybody tell me why the names of a few font families, which have regular, italic, bold, and oblique styles, appears in the Writer's font list in italics? The affected fonts include "Century Schoolbook L", TLWGMono, "URW Palladio L" LibreOffice 3.4.4 OOO340m1 (Build:402) Ubuntu 11.10 ___

Modern font features

2012-03-30 Thread Steve White
This is to express a general wish, that the word processor be brought up to date with respect to typographic features, sucha as are present in many modern fonts, and handled by all modern font rendering software. It's disappointing that LibreOffice (as well as its commercial competition) have *poo