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Re: Favorite Font

From	candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Favorite Font
Date	2025-04-16 14:00 +0000
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John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote at 19:33 this Tuesday (GMT):
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:01:47 +0000
> Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
>
>> I suppose that it is all in the eye of the beholder.
>> 
>> But LibreOffice has chosen Liberation as the default font
>> and it can't be just for the Unicode coverage.
>
> They're free to do as they like - and again, it's certainly a
> functional good-enough; I just wouldn't classify it as particularly
> nice on an aesthetic level, is all.

Neither is Times New Roman, or Arial. It gets the job done, and looks
clean enough.

>> Although perhaps moot, the Nimbus fonts, being part of the ghostscript
>> URW collection, AFAIK do not support Unicode. although they do support
>> most European languages.
>
> Haven't checked it for full Unicode coverage; fortunately, I don't need
> more than extended Latin in my day-to-day, which it handles just fine.

I'd imagine so, if it's the default. LO does have a tool to insert
Unicode, so it would be awkward if it looked off with the default.

>> Print?  Does anyone still print?
>
> Well, if I ever get around to finishing the typesetting for my novel...


Do you mean printing documents from a standard printer?
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