Mail Archives: cygwin/2011/05/26/09:42:43
On 26/05/2011 9:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 26 08:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>> On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>>> On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>>> I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see
>>>>> an obvious way to request an account with them. Do you have one by chance?
>>>> Nope, sorry.
>>>>
>>>> Clicking at the first hopeful-looking Google result for "Liberation
>>>> Mono", I'd downloaded it from a site called dafont.com. Apparently I
>>>> picked up an old version without that problem: 1.04.
>>> I installed and use 1.06.0.20100721-3 from Fedora 14 without problems.
>> Ah, but I installed liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721.tar.gz from
>> https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/, and *DID* see the problem.
>> That is, after installation, Liberation Mono did not show up in mintty's
>> font selection window.
> That's interesting. I just hacked a simple test application which
> calls ChooseFont. The Liberation Mono font from F14 returns 0x31
> in the LOGFONT lfPitchAndFamily member, so it's marked as fixed font.
>
> The liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721.tar.gz file from
> https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ returns 0x32, so it's marked
> as variable font. This is certainly a packaging bug.
>
> FYI, I reported this as a packaging bug upstream:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707973
Thanks!
BTW, is there an easy way to get the F14 version of the font if I don't
have an F14 machine handy? Or, alternatively, is there an easy way to
hack the .ttf files so they correctly claim to be fixed-pitch?
Ryan
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