Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 15236
Font menu should have more sane size choices (8,9,10,11,12,14,16,18...)
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:22 UTC
Right now the font size menu on the toolbar has the following choices: (Debian unoff. 1.1b2 packages, though I don't think they touched that) 6 7 8 9 10 10.5 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 32 36 40 44 48 54 60 66 72 80 88 96 Having less choices would make selection quicker (as would having a menu dropping down all the way, see #15235) and would lead to more consistent, aesthetically more pleasing documents for lazy users -- these sizes were so standard in lead type, most of them had a name of its own. Proportions do matter. Possible choice would be: 8 9 10 11 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 36 48 72 96 Note that the user can use the box next to the menu if he or she wants another size (which will happen with larger sizes most of the time anyway: 88pt -- please! -- fonts like this have to be tuned for optical impression anyway, or 96 is just close enough. Alternatively you could add a "More..." or "Others..." Choice. /ralph -- just have a look at the link http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGuidelines/HIGuidelines-102.html#HEADING102-0 even though I think this is a bit too minimalistic.
True to that. I hope the assigned person will look at this and suggest to developers for the next release.
Unless I misunderstand, this is a request for enhancement. I agree with the idea of having less in menus. I'm adding the "oooqa" keyword, setting this to New from Unconfirmed, & setting this to Enhancement from Defect.
I agree that it would ease the selection of "meaningful" font sizes. But not all users are aware that a manual entry is possible here, thus seeing a limitation at first glance. My experience tells me what at least some users will do when they smell any sort of limitation: They cry out LOUD because they see "the most important features of all crippeled". I am not kidding at all. It is hard to meet the needs of Power-Users and Newbies alike. "Yet another option" only piles up the existing problem of "Already too many options in Tools-Options". Note: Miccrosoft Word offers these: 8 9 10 10.5 11 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 36 48 72 My summary on this: I vote for an implementation of an entry "more..." to get an intuitive (= mouse-clickable... :-) way to "all" sizes. Reassigned to Bettina.
I strongly agree. Standard font size "canon" has been established in the sixteenth century and is based on the diatonic scale (thus, any combination of sizes in the scale is looking good). The scale goes as follows: (6 7) 8 9 10 11 12 14 16 18 21 24 36 48 60 72 ... [Robert Bringhurst: The Elements of Typographic Style, p.45, ISBN 0-88179-132-6] First two could be omitted as they are rarely used. If user really wants more exotic font sizes (e.g. 10.5) they can always, as said, input them by hand.
I like more choices - I was not aware that you could type in the amount...
I use 10.5 as my default font. I'd prefer the MS Word font list, as I'd bet that most users switching over to OpenOffice would probably expect such a font list.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".