[Fontconfig] Font aliases for old Microsoft font names

Jay Philips philipz85 at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 7 07:15:12 PDT 2015


Hi Akira,

No I'm not familiar enough with it to do so, but had mentioned this 
issue in a libreoffice bug report and they said they rely on fontconfig 
for font substitution and so i thought to submit the issue upstream.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91004

Jay Philips

On 09/07/2015 05:28 AM, Akira TAGOH wrote:
> Can you make a patch for that?
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com
> <mailto:philipz85 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I would like to suggest that 'Tms Rmn' and 'Helv' be added as
>     aliases for Times New Roman and Helvetica.
>
>     https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/68536
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Sans_Serif
>
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