[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 130396] New: Formatting

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130396

            Bug ID: 130396
           Summary: Formatting
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: joseph.price at okstate.edu

Problem:  The usual and preferred  work flow is to use the pull down font menu
to try a few fonts for particular uses within documents.  There are many
frustrated posts in various places about the default behavior of LO, especially
with Writer but any application that allows user choice of fonts, that the
fonts list has every font in the OS. Many beginners make this observation, and
they often do not know how to post the problem.  This LO behavior makes the
fonts menu a mess. The main but not only problems are foreign language fonts,
e.g. installed by the OS, a browser, etc., which makes using the fonts list in
LO annoyingly tedious. Templates are a partial work around, not always
practical.

Suggestion:  While researching and deleting some fonts can help, there can be
dependencies issues. One can use ~./your_config_directory/fontconfig/font.conf
to broadly reject fonts for a user, although this can cause dependencies
problems between applications for that user, e.g. LO versus browser. See:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Whitelisting_and_blacklisting_fonts
, which offers useful code examples,  and other posts online.  Application
specific configuration is often the better approach.

First, it would be so helpful now to be able set up or at least have LO read a
similar xml file to blacklist (reject) fonts from LO in the user's HOME LO
configuration directory. LO using the same format file as the OS reads to block
fonts would help users a great deal, and LO Help could reference links or
content in links like the one above.  

Later, even better but not as pressing an issue,  might be managing fonts from
within LO with a nice interface to edit that xml file to achieve this. It might
include a tick box list to allow the user to choose which fonts will appear in
the font pull down menu with "select all" and "block all".

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