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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