> Why would the same font look different in different browsers?! Because it is not the same font. I have font “Monospace”, but not “monospace”. Also all browsers seem to be fine with this collision: neither firefox, nor opera (12: presto), nor chromium use font named “Monospace”. I can’t say what chromium actually uses because computed style contains “monospace” while Opera shows “DejaVu Sans Mono”. If I read correctly firefox uses “Droid Sans Mono” and “PowerlineSymbols” for the element at a time (due to fontconfig configuration second one is expected; it contains powerline-specific glyphs and nothing more) (computed style again contains only “monospace”, but there is a special tab named “Fonts” in built-in debugger).
> No? I know people have had trouble using it in Vim before, at least one > person decided it was because that font wasn't actually fixed-width: > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_use/DxSsvfzVAFI/ZbWBJrmHlsUJ > If the 'monospace' font has variable-width characters, isn't it by definition > not actually monospace then? I'm a little frustrated to discover there's a > font with a name matching a generic family name at all; it prevents any > webpage from setting the default user-selected monospace font. But as you > say, there are going to be a lot of people using it... Previously I only tried it with terminal. For proportional fonts terminal displays too large gaps, for Monospace it does not. Also it is fine in gvim: I checked now. > > Maybe set default to a list of common monospace fonts with an addition of > > “, monospace” as the very last resort for browser? Chromium has too many > > users to just ignore this problem. > > Yes, that's what i meant by "as a last resort". This sounds like a reasonable > alternative, to put a list of common fonts in there. The user could always > override that. <...> > Thanks. I'll probably try implementing: > > 1. detect font used by Vim if possible > 2. fall back to DejaVu/Consolas/Bitstream Vera/Monaco in some order > 3. Fall back to "monospace" which *intends* to select a generic font family, > but apparently on some systems is an actual font name which might not be > fixed-width after all 3. was not the problem. I just tried creating font named "monospace" (note: lowercase first letter) and it started to be actually used by chromium, firefox and opera. But font named “Monospace” (uppercase first letter) is *not*. It is a different issue which occurs on chromium only. > Any hints on getting font name from X/Motif fonts? Windows fonts and GTK > fonts aren't too bad... No idea. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
