On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote: > On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> >> On 25 May 2011 19:05, Ryan Johnson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> How do you get mintty to see Liberation Mono? I downloaded the family >>>>> from >>>>> redhat, installed it on my w7-x64 machine, made sure it was set to >>>>> 'show,' >>>>> and started a fresh mintty, but it still can't find the font. >>>> >>>> Works for me, on w7-x64. Make sure the font shows up in the Fonts >>>> control panel and that it isn't hidden, i.e. not appearing greyed out. >>>> There's a 'Show' button along the top of the panel in case it is. >>> >>> I tried to say before that I have done that (I saw the closed bug about >>> this >>> and made sure to follow the instructions there). Unchecking that setting >>> about language-specific hiding made a whole bunch of other (presumably >>> Asian) fonts show up in mintty, but still no Liberation Mono. >> >> I actually wasn't talking about that option, but the abilily to >> show/hide each font separately. But it doesn't sound like that's the >> issue anyway. >> >>> The font is officially installed, officially showing, and usable by just >>> about everything except mintty. Most apps (like Word) picked it up >>> immediately. >> >> Right, I'm afraid that leaves me stumped, given it's fine here. Do you >> fancy messing with the mintty source code to see which flag on >> ChooseFont() is excluding that font? It's in select_font() in >> winctrls.c. I guess CF_FIXEDPITCHONLY is the prime candidate. > > Removing CF_FIXEDPITCHONLY indeed allows the font to show (and a whole pile > of non fixed-pitch friends). Apparently the font version I downloaded > (liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721) doesn't mark itself as fixed-pitch? > > When I select liberation mono, ChooseFont populates the LOGFONT with > lfPitchAndFamily=0x32. MSDN says: >> >> The two low-order bits specify the pitch of the font and can be one of the >> following values. >> >> DEFAULT_PITCH >> FIXED_PITCH >> VARIABLE_PITCH > > Sure enough, grep-find over /usr/include/w32api shows: >> >> wingdi.h:380:#define VARIABLE_PITCH 2
Thanks very much for investigating. > 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. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple