On 12 September 2013, Nikolay Pavlov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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".
As I understand it Monospace is a Pango thing, and Pango is a member
of the Gnome tribe. Now, members of the Gnome tribe don't socialize
with members of the KDE tribe; so there you have it. :)
http://xkcd.com/927/
> 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.
[...]
I don't know much about that, sorry. I suppose digging through
Pango docs might be a reasonable starting point.
/lcd
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