[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#254113: Fix for Openoffice?

[Jan Willem Stumpel]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> tags 254113 pending thanks

> I patched all sfd files, rebuilt the package and the vertical
> spacing problem is definitely over.

Thanks -- however, I am not so confident that it is 'definitely'
over. I am still a bit worried that line spacing is almost the
same, but not quite the same, as in Times New Roman and Arial
(according to what I understand now of the rules of typography,
fonts of the same point size should have the same line spacing).

Am still working on this puzzle. Maybe I'll send you another patch
request later (this may take a long time).

I saw the version now in Sid has the st ligature corrected. Great!
However, the others like ff, fl, ffi still give problems. They
give strange effects on web pages with justified text, when viewed
with Firefox. See for instance my own 'font and keyboard page':
http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html. See what happens to words
like 'file', 'difficult', 'difference', 'Openoffice' if FreeSerif
is the display font (also when you try to select text in lines
containing such words). This is apparently a bug in Pango (not yet
reported in Debian, but it has been in Ubuntu:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/37828).
Dejavu, in the meantime, has marked its Latin ligatures as
"discretionary". Until these problems are sorted out, I suggest
the Freefonts do the same.

Regards, Jan