Hi Adam, thanks for taking the time to report this.
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 04:52:20PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Package: fonts-georgewilliams > Version: 20031023-1 > Severity: normal > > The "monospace" font has ligatures for some often occuring combinations, > including "st", "ff" and "fi", and these are crammed within 1 character > cell. This not only looks ugly, making text hard to read, but also breaks > alignment, displacing everything after such a ligature by 1 position. > A ligature of width 2 might be acceptable. > > The basic rule for a fixed-pitch font is for every character to have width > of its wcwidth() (1, 2 for CJK, 0 for combining/specials). This font fails > this requirement. > Ideally would be great to have this fixed upstream, this is why I'm cc-ing George Williams (hopefully using the right mail address...). As you can see here [1] this font hasn't been touched since 2002, so it's a bit of a shot in the dark, but I'm trying anyway :). > Also, this is quite nasty because fonts-georgewilliams installs itself as > the default system monospaced font on machines where it's installed. This has been reported as #760826, which I'm going as well to forward upstream as also in this case would be great to have the change made directly there. Cheers, Francesca [1]: http://fontforge.org/sfds/index.html -- "There's no end of things I could read. The army of monkeys trying to randomly re-create Shakespeare are filling the Internet with other stuff instead." Lars Wirzenius, Getting Things Done for Hackers
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