From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 07:28:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AE937B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:28:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79CFC43FD7 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:28:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Q6TP-0002C4-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:21:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Q6N8-0001cI-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:14:42 +0200 From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:17:14 -0400 Organization: WingNET Internet Services Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <20030611032329.GA54180@moo.holy.cow> <200306112320.28420.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Sender: news Subject: Re: X TrueType font spacing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:28:33 -0000 Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:52, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: >> parv wrote: >> > in message , 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 >> >> [...] >> 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 in > an application that is designed to use a fixed width font -- the effect is > not restricted to TTF. Well, I can open a Konqueror window using the Luxi Sans TTF and everything looks great (Luxi Sans is proportional, I think), but when I switch to Courier New, some of the text in Konq is screwed up in the way I explain above. I think you may be on to something there, but I don't think it's that simple. I think there is something wrong with the way the Windows XP fonts are described to X with the fonts.scale and fonts.dir files or something. Has ANYONE here installed windows fonts in their X server? Have you had this problem? If not, could you send me instructions for installing windows fonts under X so that I can compare them with the methods I use? Thanks. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net