Re: italic display of regular fonts in menu

2012-05-09 Thread Caolán McNamara
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 italics? The affected fonts include Century Schoolbook L, TLWGMono, URW Palladio

Re: italic display of regular fonts in menu

2012-05-09 Thread Steve White
Hi Caolán, Thanks for the explanation! It is a bit of a bug though. There is a a convention for finding the regular face of a family, discussed in the TrueType and OpenType standards. That is a mess, but it mostly works. The reason I asked, was that there is a Windows bug, triggered by a

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