AbiWord: Times New Roman?
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After installing AbiWord I see DEFAULT font "Times New Roman". Proprietary font in Trisquel?
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Maybe you should ask here: http://abisource.com/support/ if they made an exception for it (or something). If so, maybe you could package AbiWord without proprietary fonts?
[Anonymous], stas730 is a troll and virtually nothing he says is ever true. You shouldn't take him seriously.
Times New Roman isn't in Trisquel. Abiword, like every word processor, implicitly associates the name "Times New Roman" with a different font that is compatible with it (e.g. Liberation Serif). This is a good thing, especially for Times New Roman, since if you have a school assignment that requires you to use Times New Roman, you're not forced to actually install Times New Roman to do your homework assignment (as long as your teacher is reasonable). Heck, if you have an idiotic teacher that isn't accepting that the sizing is all the same and it just looks different, you can tell them that the different-looking font is "my Times New Roman" and they'll probably accept it when you show them that you have selected the font "Times New Roman" in your word processor.
Haha, yeah you're right, will do.
This move to interprete "Times New Roman" and replace it for something
else is a great idea, although it shifts the attention away from what
must be really corrected: the terms used in document formatting
standards worldwide.
The standards organizations worldwide should use either one of these
recommendations:
a) Use generic font family names (like "serif", "mono"/"monospace",
etc.). Thus favoring neutrality (not a good idea since we're talking
about text fonts, which are functional data).
b) Recommend free/libre text fonts.
Every time I share a file which uses free/libre text fonts, I explain to
the recipients the importance of these and why the standards-making
organizations are wrong.
Of course, there are standards-making organizations that do-not make
such recommendations, and for those I leave my gratitude. Although the
other organizations that comply with such standards also adapt these to
their needs, and most of the time, a non-existing requirement might
become an "existing requirement" in the process.
> Use generic font family names (like "serif", "mono"/"monospace", etc.).
Font requirements are usually there for consistent spacing, not for stylistic reasons.
I know that LibreOffice will substitute "Times New Roman" for Liberation Serif or Tinos (http://packages.trisquel.info/belenos/fonts-croscore). No clue about Abiword.
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