I came to notice that in different operating systems different font styles appear in the drop-down list of the formatting toolbar of LibreOffice Writer (don’t know about other modules) – having the same LO version in use.
For example, in Debian 8 the font Lato appears only with its regular style in the drop-down list.
If I want to use the styles Light, Thin or others, I have to select them via “Format” > “Character” (or right-click > “Character”).
This is not only inconvenient, it also has another major downside:
When I open a document that was created (and formatted) under a different OS, and a font was originally selected via the drop-down list, a different font is chosen if the originally used font is now not available in the drop-down list – and I have to re-format all the text with that particular font.
Another example is the Light style of the font Aleo, which doesn’t appear in the list using Windows 8.1, Ubuntu 16.04 and Debian 8.
On the other hand – and strangely enough – in Ubuntu 16.04 I can now not only choose Calibri and Calibri Light from the list, but also Calibri Light Italic (!). I can normally never choose an italic style from this list. How come that now I can?
It seems a bit like LibreOffice “does what it wants” in this regard.
What determines which of the installed font styles appear in the drop-down list?
Does it have something to do with the way the fonts are installed?
Or does it depend on a certain configuration in the operating system?
Does it maybe do have something to do with the version of LO?