On Sep 12, 2013 12:40 AM, "LCD 47" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11 September 2013, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > I'm a little frustrated to discover there's a font with a name > > matching a generic family name at all; it prevents any webpage from > > setting the default user-selected monospace font. > [...] > > There is no collision. Simplifying, you can think of "Monospace" as > an alias to a "real" name, that looks something like this: > > -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 > > There are standard mechanisms to change these aliases, which allows > things like themes and skins to take effect on all programs system-wide. > Nothing stops you to alias "Monospace" to a proportional width font, but > then you deserve what you get. :) > > /lcd
You are likely true (I failed to find file with font "Monospace" yet such font can be chosen and fc-list knows nothing about it, neither does KDE systemsettings), but that is not the case: as indicated earlier browsers choose different fonts for "monospace" that are not equal to "Monospace". By the way, do you know a way to determine what is actually used when I request font "Monospace"? As I said fc-list does not work. In /etc/fonts there are lists for "monospace" (lowercase) family, but "Monospace" string is only present in comments. Also interesting fact: after I added font named "monospace" for testing purposes "Monospace" disappeared. Reappeared again when it was removed. > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
