Package: xxdiff Version: 1:3.1-1 Severity: minor Here's a report I got:
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:20:31 -0800 From: Dave Cohrs Subject: Re: Bug#299271: xxdiff 3.0.2 does not respect xxdiffrc FontText or --textfont Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Could you please check the attached [xxdiff 3.1] package? Does it fix the > problem > you've reported? Sort Of. It appears xxdiff no longer accepts XLFD font specs, neither in the "FontText" property nor as the argument to the --textfont CLI option. However, the documentation (manual.html) still says it does. I don't recogize the format of the font spec the wants, but at least the xxdiff in xxdiff_3.1-1_i386.deb includes an example of a valid font when you run "xxdiff --list-resources". It turns out that both xxdiff-3.0.2 and xxdiff-3.1 want fonts to be specified using the following notation: FontText: "Lucidatypewriter,9,-1,2,50,0,0,0,1,0" This format is neither XLFD nor fontconfig format. I have no idea what it is. I'm guessing it's a Qt-specific format since I found similar things in my .qtrc file, but I haven't been able to find a Qt document that documents this format yet. The 1st field is the font name. The second some sort of size, but it's not the point size (specifying 9 displays a font that's about the size of a 12pt font on my screen). After that, I have no idea. But now that I know what it is, I think that what's requires is to update the xxdiff documentation to document this way of specifying a font for those of us that don't know the internals of Qt. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.22 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages xxdiff depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an hi libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-8 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v hi libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
