On Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at 12:05:39 PM UTC-4, Ken Bassford wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I've seen several posts and bug reports open about the subject of font > selection in the editor, but no one has addressed why many of the Truetype > Monospaced fonts are not selectable. I want to select fonts that have > clear, readily identifiable differences between 0 (zero) and O (capital > "oh") or 1 (one) and l (small "el") and I (capital "eye"). For example, I > can select Cousine, Inconsolata, DejaVu Sans Mono, Liberation Mono and Noto > Mono: but I can't select Noto Sans Mono, Mechanical or Share Tech Mono > despite the fact that they are all coded and readily identified as > monospaced fonts by the system. All are installed under > '/usr/share/fonts/', have permissions of 644 and "sudo fc-cache -srv" has > no effect. > > Ironically I can also select Noto Color Emoji and Noto Emoji, if I was so > inclined, which really messes up the spacing and alignment despite > pretending to be monospaced (maybe Google should change them to "expanded" > instead, I can only assume there is a technical reason for specifying them > as "monospaced" such as scaling or kerning). > > So what's the deal? Why does only a subset of truetype, monospaced fonts > appear in the selection box? > > Sincerely, > Ken Bassford >
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