[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#611970: Bug#611970: Please hide ttf-lyx from the font selector

[Per Olofsson]

Hi Fabian,

2011-02-04 10:40, Fabian Greffrath skrev:
> the ttf-lyx font shows up in ooo-writer's font selection combo-box,

Which font is that? I don't think there's a font named ttf-lyx. That's
only the package name.

> although it's very unlikely this font is ever selected for writing
> actual text, since it does not contain letters but only symbols.

Well, some of the fonts included in the package work for writing text:
cmr10 (Computer Modern) and eufm10 (Euler Fraktur). The rest are symbol
fonts, though.

> I'd prefer if this font was hidden from the font selector
> altogether,

But there are fonts like OpenSymbol and Zapf Dingbats visible in the
selector. Do you think they should be hidden too?

> because adding specific symbols is far easier by using the "Insert ->
> Special character ..." menu or pasting the symbol from gucharmap,
> instead of learning which key is mapped to which symbol in this
> font.

Agreed. But then I think all symbol fonts should be hidden. Is there a
consensus about this?

> The attached fontconfig file will hide the font from the font
> selector if installed properly in /etc/fonts/conf.{d,avail}.

According to fonts-conf(5):

"Fonts matched by an rejectfont element are  "blacklisted";  such  fonts
are  excluded  from  the  set  of  fonts used to resolve list and match
requests as if they didn't exist in  the  system."

AIUI, that means the fonts are not only unlisted, but will in fact never
be used.

-- 
Pelle