[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 #22 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #18)
> 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

David Libre, Frank Ruhl Hofshi, and Miriam Libre only take up 0.5Mb
uncompressed, so its not really a problem space-wise, and with 2 variants of
each, users have more choice, more freedom, and users will be able to tell us
which of each they prefer in a later poll.

> 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.

Hopefully the issue of missing fonts in documents will be solved by my
proposal.

https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2016/10/21/dealing-with-missing-fonts/

The idea of providing a standalone font download bundle is found in bug 113496.

> 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.

If all or most of the bundled fonts had the full weight spectrum and we could
correctly handle them in the UI (bug 72944) it would definitely be beneficial
to have them, but unfortunately that isnt the case today and wouldnt consider
not including all weights to be crippling the fonts.

For full disclosure i didn't include the Light, Medium and Black weights of
Rubik and Frank Ruhl Hofshi and the Medium weight from David Libre.

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