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

Submitted by:  Christian Perrier <bubulle>
Submitted on:  Sat 18 Feb 2006 10:12:50 AM UTC  
 
Category: font infoSeverity: 4 - Important
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Steve White <Stevan_White>
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 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>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
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>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
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>
Project 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>
Project Member

 

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

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Thu 14 Feb 2008 10:53:17 PM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusFix posted=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Sat 09 Feb 2008 02:06:29 PM UTCStevan_WhiteCategoryNone=>font info
    Sat 09 Feb 2008 11:13:44 AM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusConfirmed=>Fix posted
    Sat 09 Feb 2008 11:09:29 AM UTCStevan_WhiteSeverity3 - Normal=>4 - Important
    Thu 31 Jan 2008 08:46:22 AM UTCStevan_WhiteAssigned topeterlin=>Stevan_White
      ReleaseNone=>2006-01-26
    Sun 09 Jul 2006 07:24:06 PM UTCbubulleAttached File-=>Added 009_freemono_really_mono, #10323
    Thu 11 May 2006 09:26:50 PM UTCpeterlinStatusNone=>Confirmed
      Assigned toNone=>peterlin
    Sat 18 Feb 2006 10:12:50 AM UTCbubulleCarbon-Copy-=>Added -unavailable-

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