Comment 8 for bug 1001033

Revision history for this message
Steve White (stevan-white) wrote :

Hi Sam,

Is it possible there is some peculiarity of FreeMono that makes this happen on your system?
Well sure. Fonts are terribly complicated really.

But I don't think so.

I can tell you, the spacing glyphs of FreeMono are uniformly 600EM wide (including 'H' and 'I'--I just triple-checked.)
The flag indicating that it is monospaced is set (and another flag indicating it is "fixed pitch" is also set,
at least in the builds on the FreeFont site.)

And again, you are talking about rendered sizes. I have to say, it looks to me as if there is some misunderstanding somewhere, about what is to be done when scaling the integer EM size to a pt size. It can be tricky business. But this is not the business of the font, but rather the rendering software.

Could send me some code that illustrates the problem? Otherwise I'm quite in the dark here.