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bug #15789: Freemono font no longer recognized as a monospace font

Submitter:  Christian Perrier <bubulle>
Submitted:  Sat 18 Feb 2006 10:12:50 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  font info Severity:  4 - Important
Item Group:  None Status:  Fixed
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  Stevan_White
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  * 2006-01-26
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Thu 14 Feb 2008 10:53:17 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Fixed by application of Debian patches.

Checked in Windows with

  • PuTTY
  • gvim
  • Opera


All see FreeMono as a monospaced font.

The display is crappy, but that is a different problem.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Sat 09 Feb 2008 12:17:34 PM UTC, comment #4: 

See also the Support Request
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?105112
sr #105112: Any idea why gvim doesnt recognize FreeMono?
(this also contains technical remarks)

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Group administrator
Mon 07 Jan 2008 06:12:49 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Same issue may be causing gvim under windows to not show the font.

Anonymous
Wed 18 Apr 2007 05:43:51 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Same issue may be causing PuTTY under Windows to show the font.

Anonymous
Sun 09 Jul 2006 07:24:06 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This problem is indeed related to two errors:

-#17038 about erroneous horizontal spacing because some glyphs have an incorrect Width

-and also some glyphs having a zero Width.

The fontforge FAQ explains it well:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html#monospace

By changing ALL Width to 1, the font now is properly recognized as monospace. This can bee seen by running "ftinfo -a" on the generated TTF file(s). It will show
"0: postscript: isFixedPitch: 1"

The attached patch does the needed job. Beware that this patch completes the patchj I proposed for #17038. Actually, both bugs should be linked together

Christian Perrier <bubulle>
Group Member
Sat 18 Feb 2006 10:12:50 AM UTC, original submission:  

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255569

Updating to the latest version of ttf-freefont in sid causes KDE to no longer
recognize that FreeMono is actually a monospace font.  In kcontrol's
Font Preferences, it will no longer appear as a possible selection for a
fixed width font, but does appear as a selection for all the
variable-width fonts.

Comparing the package against version 20030519-1 shows only differences
in the font files themselves.  I'm not sure, but I guess this problem
may be related to the change in font-building for this package. 

Moreover, the defoma hints still say that FreeMono is a fixed-width
font.   Running defoma-reconfigure did not correct the problem.

The x-ttfcidfont-conf directory entries are in my /etc/X11/XF86Config
file, and I'm using XTT as my font render.

PS: this issue still applies to 20060126

Christian Perrier <bubulle>
Group Member

 

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file #10323:  009_freemono_really_mono added by bubulle (16KiB - text/x-diff)

 

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    2008-02-14 Stevan_White StatusFix posted Fixed
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2008-02-09 Stevan_White CategoryNone font info
    2008-02-09 Stevan_White StatusConfirmed Fix posted
    2008-02-09 Stevan_White Severity3 - Normal 4 - Important
    2008-01-31 Stevan_White Assigned topeterlin Stevan_White
        ReleaseNone 2006-01-26
    2006-07-09 bubulle Attached File- Added 009_freemono_really_mono, #10323
    2006-05-11 peterlin StatusNone Confirmed
        Assigned toNone peterlin
    2006-02-18 bubulle Carbon-Copy- Added -email is unavailable-

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