Ubuntu
ttf-freefont package

  1. Bug #1001033
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 1001033

Revision history for this message
Weeble (clockworksaint) wrote :

I ran the C test against every font on my Ubuntu 11.10 system with "Mono" or "Courier" in the name like so:

    for name in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*/*Mono*.ttf; do ./fonttest $name abcdefgh > `basename $name`.testresult; done
    for name in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*/*Courier*.ttf; do ./fonttest $name abcdefgh > `basename $name`.testresult; done

Here are the results:

    http://pastebin.com/QiwJsy8e

And here are the font versions I have installed:

    http://pastebin.com/4PTaBUpN

I only see variation in advance width for FreeMono. As Steve describes above, perhaps this behaviour is due to how FreeType handles different outline formats? I'm not sure.

I haven't had an answer yet on the FreeType mailing list, but I've added this to their bug tracker[1]. I've also taken discussion of how to position the cursor in Pygame back to the Pygame mailing list[2], as I was worried I'd just clog up this bug report with information irrelevant to any (possible) problem in Ubuntu software.

[1] - https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?36593
[2] - http://archives.seul.org/pygame/users/Jun-2012/msg00015.html