[Issue 79878] OO.o can not select modern font faces conveniently

[nmailhot at openoffice.org]

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------- Additional comments from nmailhot at openoffice.org Sat Aug 16 07:37:05 +0000 2008 -------
@meywer Ben states plainly in http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12735
that having Condensed a font family is a legacy deprecated property for systems
that can not parse modern font attribute. It's not intended to be used by
anything remotely current.

Linux core font libraries have been switched to the modern behaviour after a
grace period some time ago. Going back to the previous behaviour or activating
both at once would be a regression.  (and BTW opentype specs were written by
entities like MS so trying to fight the tide would result in major compatibility
problems in a few years)

The problems occur at the OO.o level, which is still being updated to take font
format changes into account. If you want to complain, complain this update is
taking too long, do not ask to remove what progress has already been made by the
fine developpers.

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