[okular] [Bug 450887] New: Change font for plain text files

[van.snyder at sbcglobal.net]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450887

            Bug ID: 450887
           Summary: Change font for plain text files
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: van.snyder at sbcglobal.net
  Target Milestone: ---

Not reporting a crash, just requesting a feature.

When displaying plain-text files in Okular, it would be useful to be able to
change the font, for several reasons.

One is that plain-text files are frequently formatted to be viewed using
fixed-pitch fonts, to preserve positional relationships.

Another is that one might generally work with one language/alphabet, such as
Latin, but occasionally need to look at a file as another, such as Cyrillic.

A third, similar to the second, is that some files contain DECtech or IBM 437
box-drawing characters.

A reasonable place to do this is on the File -> Properties menu which, for
plain-text files presently (20.12.3) only gives information, but no opportunity
to change the font.

Of course, one would like to be able to print the file using the selected font,
not the system default font.

I like the font-selection dialogue in the nedit editor, but nedit can't print
the file using the alternative font.

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