Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 43207
Improve support for CTL: Assigning different fonts for different scripts
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:00:01 UTC
It would be very useful to be able to define fonts for CT scripts on a script by script basis and/or on a per language basis. (i.e. one font for Bengali, one for Hindi, one for Tibetan, one for for Urdu, one for Arabic, .... etc.) since one font is rarely useful for more than one CTL script. Mozilla and Firefox have such a feature (under: Tools, Options, Fonts & Colors, Fonts for..") In addition it would also be useful to be able to define some kind of relative size (and maybe v. position) for these scripts since, due to their different metrics, fonts for different scripts at a given point size often do not have the the same "optical size" which is more important than point size when mixing two scripts. [Hope I'm submitting this feature request in the right section (l10n). Apologies if this is the wrong place for this.] - Chris
SBA: Sound like a meaningful enhancement for people dealing with different CTL scripts. I adjusted the summary to match the findings. Reassigned to requirements.
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This feature is still not available in OpenOffice 2.4 which continues to make working with multiple scripts more difficult that it should be. Andrew West's Unicode text editor BabelPad <http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html> has a nice interface for assigning different fonts for different scripts under "Options, Composite Font Mappings" - essentially letting the user define virtual composite fonts. Something similar to this in OO.org would fit the bill. [I'm sure that if asked, Andrew would not mind OO.org copying his interface.] An enhancement that could be made to what is in BabelPad, would be to be able to alow selection of relative sizes to each font within a virtual composite font. - Chris
This enhancement still not available in OO.org 3.10 or 3.11 - Chris
Created attachment 68647 [details] Default font mappping for Unicode ranges (from BabelPad)