[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128226] Warn when there's no OpenSymbol font installed

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128226

--- Comment #6 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #5)
> @Mike K, but don't we always install OpenSymbol with LibreOffice core? A
> user then removing is causing their own grief.

Is there any hint that a font suddenly appeared among tens other fonts on the
system was installed by LibreOffice? Is there any warning when a user decided
to cleanup installed fonts that one of them is required for LibreOffice? Is
there a guarantee that the problem (visible only when working with formulas)
would be spotted shortly, so that user could possibly associate the removal of
(s0me) fonts with broken behavior of Math?

> Simply warning them they've broken LibreOffice just papers over a pretty
> significant shortcoming.
> 
> What is really needed would be to implement bug 101174 to allow effective
> use of fonts other than OpenSymbol, and then provide a fallback mechanism
> (with a warning if no suitable font is available).

I don't argue that this is *possibly* a good-to-have thing, but they are
independent, and this one is rather low-hanging fruit that doesn't prevent that
one from happening once.

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