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Package: libpango1.0-0
Version: 1.12.3-1
Severity: normal
Hello, I am experiencing extremely poor spacing in gnome-terminal around the
letter 'm'. Forgive me if libpango1.0-0 is the wrong place to deal with it,
but since gnome-terminal uses libpango1.0-0 I thought this would be the more
appropriate package to send the bug, since pango is supposed to handle
character spacings.
The problem is that nearly every letter placed to the right of a letter 'm'
ends up being squashed right up against it. This makes for extremely poor
readability, for instance is it m3 or m8? cane or came? Really, it's not
acceptible.
I first thought it might have been the font I used (default Sans, 8pt), but
after trying others (using gnome-terminal's Edit-Profiles) I found that
basically every one of them is affected.
Sans 8pt seems to be the font I want to use, apart from this m problem. I'm
using 1024x768 24bit colour on a 15in laptop (IBM Thinkpad R51 LCD) screen.
I'm really at wit's end about it. Can you help?
I'll add some sample screen shots later to illustrate the problem.
Thanks,
Drew
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages libpango1.0-0 depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.0.4-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libpango1.0-common 1.12.3-1 Modules and configuration files fo
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-12 compression library - runtime
libpango1.0-0 recommends no packages.
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On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 16:22 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 06 juillet 2006 à 22:45 +1000, Drew Parsons a écrit :
> > On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 14:33 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > Le mercredi 05 juillet 2006 à 16:20 +1000, Drew Parsons a écrit :
> > > > The attached image collects snippets of screenshots illustrating the
> > > > problem.
> > >
> > > It seems that you are trying to use a variable-width font in your
> > > terminal. Such results are expected.
> >
> > Hmm, I think it started with Sans. Is this not the usual default font
> > for gnome-terminal?
> > Can you suggest a set of fonts which ought to work reliably?
>
> The default font for gnome-terminal is DejaVu Mono.
Ah OK. I wonder how I managed to get it to Sans. I had assumed that
was default, I don't remember changing it.
I'll try out the various mono fonts then. Looks like you've given me
the right answer so I'll close this bug now.
Thanks Josselin and Marco,
Drew
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