invalid UbuntuBeta Monospace font typefase

[Alex Shkop]

UbuntuBeta Monospace font typefase is serfi, so this font is not in Kubuntu's monospace fonts list and I'm unable to set this font as system monospace font

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Hello Alex,

Serif/Sans-serif and Monospace/Proportional are not exclusive. The attached PDF hopefully shows that most of the UbuntuBeta Mono is sans-serif; only the thin letters 'ijl1' have serifs to help fill the space.

However, I think this is actually a dup of bug #703998, where something is causing the font to not be detected as a monospace by the extra checking that Konsole is doing. We had nailed that one in one of the earlier alphas; but apologies for the regression. I'll try and add a unit-test to the build process to catch it.

[Alex Shkop (a-v-shkop)]

Hello, Paul

It looks that you are right about bug #703998.
Sorry, I'm not very strong at fonts terminology. After I faced a problem as in #703998 I installed FontForge and looked through font properties. There is Typeface parameter under OS/2 tab. It was set to Serif. After I set it to Monospace and re-saved font, I managed to use it in Konsole.