Call for OpenType fonts! [Was: Re: Fwd: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]]

[Simos Xenitellis]

Regarding OpenOffice.org and OpenType support, here is a recent thread
at the UX (User Experience) mailing list on features to include in
OpenOffice.org Writer 3.1,
http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=1890

A few people mentioned OpenType support,
http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=1894
http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=1899

The way to go with OOo and OpenType support, is to have users request
it, at the appropriate forums.

Simos

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com> wrote:
> Since we are debating the state of Fedora fonts, I'd also like to add
> that Fedora should ship as many OpenType fonts as possible. Why?
> Because it (finally!) includes a decent bundle of TeX (texlive), which
> contains XeTeX -- a version of TeX that can use advanced OpenType
> features directly. XeTeX is still a bit inferior to pdftex in some
> respects (no microtypography), but is far easier to use. Yeah, OOo
> should get OpenType support too, but I personally don't care much
> about it.
>
> FYI: Because Fedora up to release 8 kept including the obsolete tetex,
> which I had to patch manually many times, I skipped all Fedoras
> between 5 and 9! Anything in between would have been a downgrade for
> me after I started manually adding up to date packages to tetex. And
> no, I could not just add them locally because they conflicted with the
> bundled packages in complex ways, so the old ones had to be deleted --
> so no yum update tetex for me.
>
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