The glagolitic characters (from U+2C00 Ⰰ to U+2C5E ⱞ) are correctly displayed by many applications but not by LibreOffice. What can I do to teach LO to handle these characters?
glagolitic font
In which format is this font available (TrueType, OpenType)?
Since LibreOffice version 5.3, Type-1 fonts are no longer supported.
How to install glagolitic font…
Font support is controlled by the operating system
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I don’t know whether it is available at all for LibreOffice. It is definitely present somewhere in the system of my Mac, for TextEdit, Chrome and Pages can use it.
I ignore how I can determine the type of the font representing glagolitic characters in my system, and where and in which form this font sits in the system.
How will this help me to know whether LibreOffice can handle any glagolitic font and where to find such a font? My system is Catalina 10.15.2.
As you already have chosen to ignore how to find out anything on the fonts you use,bit wont help you.
But from principle: With Unicode there is not necessarily a special font for this characters. The question is: Is the font I’m using supporting glyphs in this range of unicode chars? If the glyph isbin it can be retrieved as special-character from the menu.
The operating system can then have a soecial keyboard layout delivering this character codes to the application.
The concept of having several fonts for special characters is more from “old” times with 8-bit characters…
You are wrong. I just don’t know how to do it. If somebody tels me, I will do this.
Ok, I found the folder with system fonts, it’s in “Library” folder on Mac. I found by google some glagolitic font, which is a file with extension otf: “Shafarik-Regular.otf”. It is installed quite easily in Mac OS: I double click on it and then click “Install the font” in the small window that opens. Though not among all the system fonts, but as a font for one user (folder “Library/Fonts” in my home directory). LibreOffice does not see it, it did not appear in the menu of fonts of LibreOffice. So the installed font seems to be unusable by LO. Why so, and is there a way to get a font or install it in way that makes it usable by LO ?
It now works. On Mac I install fonts just by dragging ttf or otf files (found on internet) into the system “Fonts” folder. The very important step: restart the computer. After restart all the installed fonts are usable in LO.
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Ok. Important is, you solved your problem.
But next time I suggest not to write “I ignore” when “I don’t know how to …” is your true meaning. Not everybody here uses english as first language and capabilities for mind-reading are rare…
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You probably don’t have to restart the computer. But you definitely have to restart LibreOffice. Count on it that every program or app on your computer that works with fonts, will read the list of fonts available on the computer when the app starts, and that it won’t update that list while it runs. So, if you add fonts with apps open, they won’t notice it.
Depending on the OS you may also have to refresh the font cache so applications can see the new fonts. This is usually part of the startup process so a reboot will do it, but isn’t the only way.
I tried to restart just LO after adding fonts one by one, but LO did no see the new fonts after restarts. They all appeared in the LO font menu after I restarted the computer (something I do very rarely).
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I don’t know how one can do this for LO. I also suppose that some applications do not use those fonts that are stored in “Libray/Fonts” folder (which are used by LO). Pages showed glagolitic characters before I installed the glagolitic fonts in “Libray/Fonts”, so there is some alternative way to use/store fonts for some Mac applications.