I'll pass for 1). I don't think Werner has subscribed here - I posted a link back to here when I posted the Savannah bug and I copied his response here, but I don't think he's following this bug. Did you CC him?
With regard to 2), I think Sam's test based on rendered string dimensions did show variations in other monospaced fonts. I think I agree with you above that Sam could not be confident of consistent results with that method, such as any time xMin < 0 or xMax > advance. If you look at the reported glyph metrics for the characters that mismatch in that test, in all cases either xMin < 0, xMax > advance or both. However, while investigating Sam's problem, I found that in FreeMono the advance width varies too. Would it be better to split this into a separate bug? I definitely think this contributes to Sam's problem, but I think Sam's test is unable to distinguish between these two different causes. With regard to 3), see 2). With regard to 4), the Pygame Font & SysFont constructors are documented[1] as taking an integer number of pixels, they pass it through[2] to SDL's TTF_OpenFont[3][4], which then uses it to call FreeType's FT_Set_Char_Size[5] like so: FT_Set_Char_Size( font->face, 0, ptsize * 64, 0, 0 ); I believe that specifies a default 72dpi, so that the pixel size = the point size. The methods that get widths and heights back out of the font in Pygame are definitely in pixels. font.render(...) returns a bitmap object and get_size() returns its dimensions in pixels. Hopefully this information reduces the amount of spelunking through Pygame and SDL needed for people investigating this. [1] - http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/font.html#pygame.font.Font [2] - http://hg.pygame.org/pygame/src/e6b5ebf91ac4/src/font.c [3] - http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/docs/SDL_ttf.html#SEC14 [4] - http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_ttf/file/c37a9410f6a7/SDL_ttf.c [5] - http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html#FT_Set_Char_Size -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001033 Title: Monospaced font is not monospaced To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/freetype/+bug/1001033/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
