Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:20:28 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X TrueType font spacing Message-ID: <200306112320.28420.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <bc7a9p$jkm$1@main.gmane.org> References: <bc5h87$nb8$1@main.gmane.org> <20030611032329.GA54180@moo.holy.cow> <bc7a9p$jkm$1@main.gmane.org>
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:52, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > parv wrote: > > in message <bc5h87$nb8$1@main.gmane.org>, wrote Jesse D. Guardiani > > thusly... > > > >> EVERY TIME, the WXP fonts will display fine in MOST KDE > >> applications, but occassionally (like in Konqueror) the horizontal > >> spacing will be all messed up. > >> > >> Basically, every line of text will look like this: > >> > >> T H I S I S A G O O D E X A M P L E > >> > >> Does anyone know what causes that? And how to fix it?!? > > > > Looks like something somewhere is defining "charwidth" (mention in > > fvwm(1) regarding use of TTF in relation to xft). > > I'm not running fvwm or xft. Straight X server (4.3.0) and KDE (3.1.x). > > Surely someone has had this problem before after installing Windows > TrueType fonts! It happens to me EVERY TIME, and it happens whether > the OS is FreeBSD or linux. > > Perhaps I should subscribe to a XFree86 mailling list and ask there. > This looks like the effect I get if I (wrongly) use a proportional font i= n an=20 application that is designed to use a fixed width font -- the effect is not restricted to TTF. For example opening an xterm in an helvetica font: beta:203> xterm -fn '-*-helvetica-*-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*' Malcolm Kay
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