Re: [tlug] OOwriter vertical glyph problem with Hiragino fonts

["Gernot Hassenpflug" <aikishugyo@example.com>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 5:34 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
> Gernot Hassenpflug writes:
>
>   > Can anyone replicate this? I have heard that there are bugs in the HG
>   > fonts, but I hope that OOWriter would be able to work with them anyway
>   > (as MS Word does).
>
>  I can't speak for upstream, but NeoOffice is completely unable to
>  handle fonts as Word does.  Almost all Word documents I have to read
>  in NOo (how apropos, as in "Just say ~") are broken with respect to
>  kerning and justification.  This is very likely due to substitution of
>  Hiragino fonts (standard on the Mac) for pretty much everything else.

Oh dear. That is a very sad situation. I'll try to post my query on a
Japanese OO forum later today and see what transpires.