[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113538] Bundle and use open source Hebrew fonts by default

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113538

--- Comment #18 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz at technion.ac.il> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #15)
> we should bundle
> 
> * 2 David variants        (serif) - David Libre, David CLM
> * 2 Frank Ruehl variants  (serif) - Frank Ruhl Hofshi, Frank Ruehl CLM
> * 2 Miriam variants        (slim) - Miriam Libre, Miriam CLM
> * 1 mono-space font        (mono) - Miriam Mono CLM
> * 3 recommended sans fonts (sans) - Rubik Libre, Nachlieli CLM, Alef

That's a decent combination, in my opinion. A more space-conservative one which
I also think would be ok is:

* 1 David variant         (serif) - David CLM
* 1 Frank Ruehl variant   (serif) - Frank Ruehl CLM
* 1 Miriam variants        (slim) - Miriam CLM
* 1 mono-space font        (mono) - Miriam Mono CLM
* 3 recommended sans fonts (sans) - Rubik Libre, Nachlieli CLM, Alef

Also (in case I haven't said this before already, which I may have) it would be
nice if there could be a detection of whether the CLM fonts are available, and
only download/install an extra version when they aren't. In fact, in order to
simplify this, it might not be a bad idea to just depend on the Culmus package
when packaging for various OS distros and only bundle them in a standalone
download.

> I limited them only to the 4 basic styles (regular, italic, bold, bold italic).

I'm very much against this. We should foster finer use of weights and not
cripple the fonts by not bundling their full weight spectrum.

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