It changes the width. The key thing about a fixed-width font is...it's fixed width. If someone's using one, they almost certainly don't want an artificial bold face that uses wider characters. This is a major pain when using a text editor that uses bold face for syntax highlighting, and affects two widely- used monospace fonts which have no native bold face, Droid Sans Mono and Inconsolata. Refs: http://askubuntu.com/questions/100672/how-to-prevent-automatic-bold-version-of-a-font-to-be-wider-than-regular-havin http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2012-January/003730.html https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133256 --- conf.d/90-synthetic.conf | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf b/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf index b8d1e85..5f1990a 100644 --- a/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf +++ b/conf.d/90-synthetic.conf @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ <test target="pattern" name="weight" compare="more"> <const>medium</const> </test> + <!-- don't embolden fixed-width, as it changes the width --> + <test name="spacing" compare="not_eq"> + <const>mono</const> + </test> <!-- set the embolden flag needed for applications using cairo, e.g. gucharmap, gedit, ... -- 2.3.0 _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
