Hello Font list, There is a very serious problem with many X applications that has been bugging me for some time, and I'd like to know what you all have to say on the matter and what is being done about it. The problem is that if you create a fixed-width BDF font and have glyphs wider than the font's DWIDTH then X applications will under many circumstances fail to delete the glyph entirely when you backspace over the character (if the glyph extends to the left outside the bounding box) or will fail to draw the glyph properly when you first type the character (if the glyph extends to the right of the bounding box).
For example, the "A" glyph (as well as all the accented "A"s and the "AE" ISO8859-1 glyphs) of the font: -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--14-100-100-100-M-90-ISO8859-1 has its left serif extend to the left the bounding box, so if you backspace over it there will still be a pixel left over, and if you put your cursor in front of it and hit space a bunch of times you'll have a trail of ugly dots. The oblique version of this font has this problem for the glyphs of at least "_", "j", and "p". There are other fonts that I have that do this for many more characters, but they aren't bundled in a package that is part of the X distribution. Also, the xmbdfedit program seems totally clueless about such fonts (when it isn't busy crashing or doing other ridiculous things). For example, if you load in the above Adobe Courier font (which has a DWIDTH of 9) and then immediately save it with xmbdfedit then it will have a DWIDTH of 10 and the spacing will look like crap if you actually compile it and use it in an application, until you manually go through the file and (using your editor's replace command) change all the "DWIDTH 10"s to "DWIDTH 9"s. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
