Fontconfig fails to detect that the "FreeMono" fonts are monospaced, it doesn't set spacing=100: mfabian@magellan:~$ fc-list FreeMono family style spacing FreeMono:style=BoldOblique,Negreta cursiva,tučné kurzíva,fed kursiv,Fett Kursiv,Έντονα Πλάγια,Negrita Cursiva,Lihavoitu Kursivoi,Gras Italique,Félkövér dőlt,Grassetto Corsivo,Vet Cursief,Halvfet Kursiv,Pogrubiona kursywa,Negrito Itálico,Полужирный Курсив,Tučná kurzíva,Fet Kursiv,Kalın İtalik,polkrepko ležeče,Lodi etzana FreeMono:style=Bold,Negreta,tučné,fed,Fett,Έντονα,Negrita,Lihavoitu,Gras,Félkövér,Grassetto,Vet,Halvfet,Pogrubiony,Negrito,Полужирный,Fet,Kalın,polkrepko,đậm,Lodia FreeMono:style=Medium,Normal,obyčejné,Standard,Κανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,Обычный,Normálne,navadno,thường,Arrunta FreeMono:style=Oblique,Cursiva,kurzíva,kursiv,Πλάγια,Kursivoitu,Italique,Dőlt,Corsivo,Cursief,Kursywa,Itálico,Курсив,İtalik,ležeče,nghiêng,Etzana mfabian@magellan:~$ When checking why this happens, I found that the advance widths for almost all glyphs in the "FreeMono" fonts are 600, *except* for U+0300 - U+0344 where the advance width is 0. But all the characters in the range U+0300 - U+0344 are combining characters and as I currently understand it, it is correct that the advance width is 0 for combining characters. It is like that in most other fonts as well, for example in "Arial Unicode MS" (not monospaced). "Courier New" is an exeption, it has the same advance width for combining characters as for regular characters, therefore fontconfig recognizes "Courier New" as monospaced. Probably fontconfig should ignore all combining characters when checking whether a font is monospaced. Is that correct? See also: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freefont-bugs/2003-08/msg00000.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freefont-bugs/2003-09/msg00001.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freefont-bugs/2003-09/msg00002.html -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian@xxxxxxx> http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 _______________________________________________ fontconfig mailing list fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
