Could Symbola be used as an alias/replacement for MS Symbol font? Often when I open MS docs in libreoffice there is Symbol font chars in these docs and I like to be able to see them properly. Could Symbola be used here? And how to construct a /etc/fonts/conf.avail/62-symbola.conf file which inserts Symbola as an alias for Symbol ?
This is not a bug. Please seek help in the forums or on IRC.
(In reply to Brian Evans from comment #1) > This is not a bug. Please seek help in the forums or on IRC. I see, let me just add my findings here, using MS fonts wingdng3.ttf, wingdng2.ttf, wingding.ttf, webdings.ttf and symbol.ttf I got the missing chars in MS docs Simple ebuild, provided you can extract these from MS: API=5 inherit font DESCRIPTION="Fonts from Microsoft Windows Vista" SRC_URI="< some place with MS fonts > " LICENSE="MSttfEULA" RESTRICT="mirror binchecks strip test" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="amd64 x86" IUSE="" S="${WORKDIR}/vista" FONT_PN="vista" FONT_S="${S}" FONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts/${FONT_PN}" FONT_SUFFIX="ttf" src_compile() { mv "${S}"/symbol.ttf "${T}" mv "${S}"/webdings.ttf "${T}" mv "${S}"/wingding.ttf "${T}" mv "${S}"/wingdng2.ttf "${T}" mv "${S}"/wingdng3.ttf "${T}" rm -fr "${S}" mkdir "${S}" mv "${T}"/symbol.ttf "${S}" mv "${T}"/webdings.ttf "${S}" mv "${T}"/wingding.ttf "${S}" mv "${T}"/wingdng2.ttf "${S}" mv "${T}"/wingdng3.ttf "${S}" }
