[Fontconfig] Strange behaviour with fixed pitch

[Alan Chandler]

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I am not sure that I have found the right place to ask this question.

A few weeks ago, I installed fontconfig (Debian Unstable), with (I assume -=
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and thats why I am not sure I am at the right place) libxft2.

Since then, I have had a strange problem in kde (konsole) with the console=
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font that it provides (see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D52538 )

I have been trying to debug the problem over the last couple of weeks and h=
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narrowed it down to the fact that using QT - if I toggle the FixedPitch=20
property of the font that a piece of text is displayed in the text display=
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displays normally when the Fixed Pitch attribute is off and seems to have a=
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double width spacing when the Fixed Pitch attribute is on.

With a small application doing just that - I have been running a debugger i=
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the qt code to find why it changes the character spacing.  Its difficult to=
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be sure but I am almost convinced that when it calls the xft library to=20
render the text it does not know that it will be rendered at this double=20
width.  Clipping Rectange sizes etc seem to be being calculated on the basi=
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of the correct font metrics.  Trouble is, I haven't manage to discover how=
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the Fixed Pitch attribute is propagated down to the xft library - so I can'=
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quite explain everything.

If my suposition is correct, then it is libxft2 that has the fault. Reading=
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the info at www.fontconfig.org the suggestion is that its using a different=
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version of the library that xfree.

So - I am reporting it here.

PS - trying to join mailing list but my membership hasn't come through yet =
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it moderated?) so maybe a cc to me on a reply would help - thanks.=20
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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