A Geek Goes Flying

Baskervville Glyphs Changing the name of a font Continuing to set up the Linux environment on the Chuwi MiniBook X , I needed the Baskerville * font to work with the templates I've lovingly hand-crafted over the years. I installed Baskervville (note the double 'v'), but since the font name didn't match exactly, Libre Office didn't use it, and instead I got some generic sans serif monstrosity. No problem, found an archived tutorial on how to change the name of the font . tl;dr version, using fonttools (which was already installed on this Fedora 40 machine), use ttx <font filename> to build a .ttx XML file for the font, then edit that XML file, using find-and-replace to swap, e.g., Baskervville to Baskerville. Then run ttx <.ttx file> to recompile the file back to a font file. Then, remove the old .ttf (or .otf or whatever) files from $HOME/.fonts and copy the recompiled files in. Done. Installing fonttools If you don’t already have ttx installed, you’ll...

I love fonts. (Typefaces. Whatever. The terms are interchangeable in common parlance, at this point.) My templates have been using Matthew Butterick’s Equity for years. (Though that makes it something of a PITA to exchange documents with opposing counsel. For those situations, Garamond, I guess.) I love Typography for Lawyers ; I have both a physical copy and the eBook; much of the content is also available on his website . If you don’t want to spend upwards of $100 on a font, there are free versions of Baskerville available (it’s also a Macintosh system font , and should be installed with Microsoft Office on Windows ): Libre Baskerville  (optimized for screen reading; many courts are now making uploaded PDFs available to jurists on tablets and large screens) Open Baskerville ( direct link to ZIP file on archive.org ) ( Font Library page ) For more information on why fonts matter, I recommend reading The Baskerville Experiment: Font and its influence on our perception of truth ....