From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 07:54:48 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 09CC237B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:54:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03E443F3F for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:54:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malcolm.kay@internode.on.net) Received: from beta.home (ppp2159.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.28.110]) h5BEsjCT026209; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:24:45 +0930 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Malcolm Kay Organization: At home To: "Jesse D. Guardiani" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 00:24:44 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <200306112320.28420.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200306120024.44883.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> 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 14:54:48 -0000 On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:47, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > 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 horizonta= l > >> >> 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 fo= nt > > 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 everyth= ing > 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 explai= n > above. > This knocks a big hole in my argument -- Courier is a fixed width font. I have in the passed installed true-type fonts from windows and never not= iced=20 any problems except with the strange ones (windings and the like) for whi= ch=20 the encodings got lost somewhere along the way. In those days that requir= ed=20 a third party true-type font server -- it was not supplied with XFree. But now-a-days I find I have a good range of fonts some of which I consid= er make the Microsoft true-types look rather mediocre. So to reduce confusio= n I've given up on the Microsoft ones. I find the Ghostscript fonts quite=20 useful, and in any case I have them on the system to support ghostscript = and=20 printing -- so one might as well connect them up to X. Malcolm Malcolm