[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#255569: Solved!

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Sun Jul 9 15:20:22 UTC 2006


Quoting Jan Willem Stumpel (jstumpel at planet.nl):

> It can. Just take the .sfd files for all FreeMono variants and
> change all occurrences of Width: 0 to Width: 600 (version cvs-5
> did this only for characters whose width is not equal to 600 and
> *not* equal to 0). It seems that really *all* characters must have
> the same width, in order for a font to be recognised as
> monospaced. Let fontforge generate new ttf files. The isFixedPitch
> entry in the "post" table will now be *automatically* set to 1, so
> ftinfo will give the correct result.

Great. This is somehting I was thinking about and already
tried. Unfortunately, I missed that some *other* characters were *not*
600 wide...so my attempt failed.

> I found that the characters which have Width: 0 in the present
> version (the combining accents) do not suffer from having their
> width changed from 0 to 600. They still work as combining accents

Wonderful. So, now we're really close to the solution, indeed.



Again, thanks a lot for pushing me on that way, Jan (or Jan Willem, as
you prefer!).




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