<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div id=":11y" class=""><div id=":z7" class=""><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi all,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I
am concerned about an issue I experienced with Linux Libertine, on
chromium. One might install the fonts via "sudo apt-get install
fonts-linuxlibertine", like I did, so that they would show up when
browsing Wikipedia. But they didn't show up for me.<br><br><br>The whole story (the reason why the fonts don't get use in chromium at the moment) is this:<br><br>a) chromium does not obey fontconfig rules most of the time. <br><br>(according to a blog post I found by an ex-chrome developer: <a href="http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/fonts/" target="_blank">http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/fonts/</a>)<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">b) the OpenType version of Linux Libertine is named "Linux Libertine O" <br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">c) Ubuntu packages the OpenType version only.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>It
comes packaged in "fonts-linuxlibertine" along with fontconfig rules
that tell the system to use it as "Linux Libertine" and everything is
fine. But as I pointed out, Chromium does not read the fontconfig files.
It just sees that "Linux Libertine" isn't on the system (it's kind of
isn't, so Chromium is right on a technicality). Websites asking for
"Linux Libertine," e.g. Wikipedia don't get the font and don't use it.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Firefox doesn't have this issue, because firefox actually heeds the fontconfig information.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Also,
the ttf version of the font is simply named "Linux Libertine" so that
one can install both ttf and otf formatted versions side-by-side. I
think that installing both formats is of dubious value, especially
considering that it makes the fonts hard to use in chromium and any
other web browser unaware of fontconfig.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I
have filed a bug on the chromium bug tracker, but I'm afraid it's not
their problem, so the bug there will probably be marked invalid. (unless
they decide to start obeying fontconfig, which I think is an
inappropriately major decision just to resolve my bug.)<br><br><a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=615884" target="_blank">https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=615884</a><br><br><br>Long
story short, it would work in chromium if the TTF version of these fonts were
available in the Ubuntu repositories somewhere or if the fonts were
renamed a bit.<br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There are a few options to fix this:<br><br>1) ttf-linuxlibertine package could be made available again<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">or<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">2) fonts-linuxlibertine could include the ttf files in some way, regardless of whether the otf files stay or go<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">or<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">3) fonts-linuxlibertine could include the otf files renamed as simply "Linux Libertine" rather than "Linux Libertine O" <br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I
would like to discuss this so that Ubuntu users can install Linux
Libertine from the repositories, and see Wikipedia in all its
typographical glory on all the major web browsers. Thank you.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">-DD</div></div></div></div></div></div>