italic display of regular fonts in menu

[Steve White]

Hi Caolán,

Thanks for the explanation!

It is a bit of a bug though.  There is a a convention for finding the
"regular" face of a family, discussed in the TrueType and OpenType
standards.
That is a mess, but it mostly works.

The reason I asked, was that there is a Windows bug, triggered by a
mismatch between the header "weight" and the OS/2 "weight",
which produced similar-looking effects -- except there the regular
face couldn't be used at all.  I thought there might be a connection,
but evidently there isn't.

Cheers!

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Caolán McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 14:38 +0200, Steve White wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Can anybody tell me why the names of a few font families, which have
>> regular, italic, bold, and oblique styles, appears in the Writer's
>> font list in italics?
>>
>> The affected fonts include
>>  "Century Schoolbook L", TLWGMono, "URW Palladio L"
>
> svtools/source/control/ctrltool.cxx ImplCompareFontInfo take every font
> face with the same name and orders them by weight first, and then
> posture. The font dropdown renders the first in that list. Those fonts
> have Italic faces of weight 80 while their "Normal"/"Roman" faces are of
> weight 100, so the italics get sorted first in the list.
>
> The same ordering is used for format->character, there'll you see for
> e.g. "Century Schoolbook L" that the styles are in order of Italic,
> Roman while for e.g. Gentium Basic they're in order Regular, Italic
>
> I've changed this now with
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=c7a9318f08e08a35f2784bf8d06f62031649b24e so the dropdown should show an upright, where available, face now
>
> C.
>