On Sun, 7 Oct 2012, Leonardo Boiko wrote: >> Inspecting the Courier New font, version 5.11, I noticed that >> the advance width of the glyph for U+0332 (glyph uni0331) >> is 1129 units. I think this explains it all. The advance width >> should be 0. >> And other fonts have the same problem, at least the following: >> Courier, DejaVu Sans Mono, > > I found some DejaVu bug reports where a developer called > Ben Laenen suggests the nonzero advance width is intentional
I wonder why. Other combining marks in DejaVu Sans Mono do not have such a problem; see http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/combining-marks.html Especially the overline U+0305 works OK. Why not the underline? -- Outgoing mail is certified free from defamation of Islam™ and insult of the Prophet™. Checked by Thinkpol anti-obscenity system v. 6.66.
