Adam Williamson wrote:
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
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conf.d/90-synthetic.conf | 4 ++++
I'm not sure if I like this, being an avid user of emboldened Lucida
Console myself. Still I see the problem if people don't want it, since
it's at position 90 and a target=font rule, meaning people cannot really
remove it in their user config. That's really somewhat unfortunate. (Why
is that file even at that position?)
On a side note, if you want same character widths for emboldened fonts,
you can typically use matrix elements. Like:
<edit name="matrix" mode="assign">
<times>
<name>matrix</name>
<matrix>
<double>.92</double><double>0</double>
<double>0</double><double>1</double>
</matrix>
</times>
</edit>
(Above value is correct for emboldened Courier New; for Lucida Console
it's .96; YMMV)
Raimund
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