"Choosing Fonts" book released

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#1

First Excerpt from “Designing with LibreOffice” Released Separately

Friends of OpenDocument has released Choosing Fonts, the first of five
excerpts from Bruce Byfield’s Designing with LibreOffice. Although
focused on LibreOffice, both the original and the full book also largely
apply to Apache OpenOffice and NeoOffice.

Like Designing with LibreOffice, Choosing Fonts is available as a free
download from http://designingwithlibreoffice.com/download-buy/.
Hardcopy versions will be available shortly.

In the five months since its release in March 2016, Designing with
LibreOffice has had over 16,000 downloads. “That’s more than I could
ever have imagined,” Byfield says. “However, its five hundred pages are
more than many people want to read. Often, they just want information on
a very specific topic. Excerpts like Choosing Fonts are a way to make
the information in the complete book more accessible.”

As the title suggests, Choosing Fonts is about the considerations that
go into choosing fonts. Topics include matching fonts, the availability
of free-licensed fonts, determining line spacing, and how the selection
of fonts can guide other design considerations from paragraph
indentations to page margins.

Future excerpts will be:

    - Styles and Templates

    - Character and Paragraph Styles

    - Frame, List, and Page Styles

    - Slide Shows, Drawing, and Spreadsheets

All excerpts, including Choosing Fonts, contain the latest revisions to
Designing with LibreOffice, including indexes and suggestions from the
French translation team.

For more information, please contact bruce@designingwithlibreoffice.com
or Jean@designingwithlibreoffice.com.

#2

has released Choosing Fonts,

On page 15, is a minor technical error.

"Their disadvantage is that only display in one color".

In Unicode 9.0, there are a small number of emoji whose
specifications call for different colours being displayed at the same time. Currently LibO displays those multi-coloured glyphs in a single colour.

Slightly more advanced, is configuring styles so that a single glyph looks like it is two, or more colours.

DwL has had over 16,000 downloads. “That’s more than I could ever have imagined,”

I suspect that there is a far larger market for non-basic material on using LibO and its kith and kin, than most authors suspect.

jonathon

#3

Interesting. I did not know that. Thanks for the correction!

#4

Bruce wrote:

Slightly more advanced, is configuring styles so that a single glyph

looks like it is two, or more colours.

Interesting. I did not know that. Thanks for the correction!

I was hoping DwL would contain more about advanced use of styles. Maybe
that is for a sequel.

jonathon

#5

If you have any suggestions, let me know. They may find their way into
the second edition, or into a sequel.