LibreOffice

LibreOffice’s default options are not always what I want, and custom settings (used to?) get lost after installing an upgrade. This is an overview of my local changes to the defaults.

Font substitution

MS Office documents that use the Calibri and Cambria fonts look horrible in LibreOffice.

1. Install fonts Carlito and Caladea

    $ sudo dnf install google-crosextra-caladea-fonts.noarch \
        google-crosextra-carlito-fonts.noarch
   

2. In LibreOffice, open Tools > Options > Fonts
3. Enable “Apply replacement table”
4. Font “Calibri”, replace with “Carlito”
5. Font “Cambria”, replace with “Caladea”
6. Check the boxes in the column “Always”

Source: https://wiki.debian.org/SubstitutingCalibriAndCambriaFonts

Custom keyboard shortcuts

In Impress, Tools > Customize > Keyboard

Keyboard Shortcut	Category	Function
Ctrl-PgDn	Insert	Slide

Custom colours

The LibreOffice colour palette is loaded from an XML file in ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/config/standard.soc. To add custom colours, it’s best to add them once using the GUI (Tools > Options > Colors) and save them separately. To load your custom colours later, load the colour file.

If you only want to add some colours, copy/paste the XML code defining those colours into standard.soc.

Custom colours for HoGent:

<draw:color draw:name="HoGentAccent1" draw:color="#c7c9cb"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentAccent2" draw:color="#fff000"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentAccent3" draw:color="#ffac87"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentAccent4" draw:color="#ffe916"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentAccent5" draw:color="#ff7477"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentAccent6" draw:color="#78e6d0"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentCVO" draw:color="#ff521d"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentFMW" draw:color="#009c7c"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentFNT" draw:color="#f43445"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentFBO" draw:color="#006fb8"/>
<draw:color draw:name="HoGentSOA" draw:color="#000000"/>