Christian Perrier wrote: > What I actually don't like in this fix is that it cannot be a > patch that applies to the fonts source...
It can. Just take the .sfd files for all FreeMono variants and change all occurrences of Width: 0 to Width: 600 (version cvs-5 did this only for characters whose width is not equal to 600 and *not* equal to 0). It seems that really *all* characters must have the same width, in order for a font to be recognised as monospaced. Let fontforge generate new ttf files. The isFixedPitch entry in the "post" table will now be *automatically* set to 1, so ftinfo will give the correct result. >From the fontforge FAQ (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/faq.html#monospace): "How do I mark a font as monospaced? You don't. Just insure that all the glyphs in the font have the same width and then FontForge will automatically mark it as monospaced for you. [..] When I say "all glyphs" I really mean all glyphs. Even glyphs which unicode says should be 0 width must have the same width as everything else. MicroSoft suggests that GPOS be used to do accent combination (etc.) and then change the advance width on any marks (accents) to be 0." I found that the characters which have Width: 0 in the present version (the combining accents) do not suffer from having their width changed from 0 to 600. They still work as combining accents if they are *single* accents. *Multiple* combined accents sometimes give problems, so MicroSoft's suggestion may be useful. But multiple combined accents are a problem anyhow, and they also do not work 100% correctly with Courier New. I think this problem can be postponed for the moment. I might also be a good idea to use fontforge to change the "IBM family" of the font to "SS typewriter" (element -> font info -> OS/2 -> IBM family). I do not know if this attribute is used by any programs, but it seems that all other monospaced fonts have this set. It can also be set in the .sfd file by inserting a line OS2FamilyClass: 1285 after the line with OS2StrikeYPos. Unfortunately, no luck yet (i.e. recognition as monospaced by KDE) with the same treatment on Luxi Mono. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]