[Bug 1001033] Re: Monospaced font is not monospaced

[Weeble]

I ran the C test against every font on my Ubuntu 11.10 system with
"Mono" or "Courier" in the name like so:

    for name in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*/*Mono*.ttf; do ./fonttest $name abcdefgh > `basename $name`.testresult; done
    for name in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/*/*Courier*.ttf; do ./fonttest $name abcdefgh > `basename $name`.testresult; done

Here are the results:

    http://pastebin.com/QiwJsy8e

And here are the font versions I have installed:

    http://pastebin.com/4PTaBUpN

I only see variation in advance width for FreeMono. As Steve describes
above, perhaps this behaviour is due to how FreeType handles different
outline formats? I'm not sure.

I haven't had an answer yet on the FreeType mailing list, but I've added
this to their bug tracker[1]. I've also taken discussion of how to
position the cursor in Pygame back to the Pygame mailing list[2], as I
was worried I'd just clog up this bug report with information irrelevant
to any (possible) problem in Ubuntu software.

[1] - https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?36593
[2] - http://archives.seul.org/pygame/users/Jun-2012/msg00015.html

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Title:
  Monospaced font is not monospaced

Status in FreeType: High Quality Font Rendering:
  Unknown
Status in “freetype” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The "FreeMono" font in Ubuntu 12.04 seems to not be monospaced.

  More information can be read at: http://www.mail-archive.com/pygame-
  users at seul.org/msg16829.html

  A little further testing after this discussion, and I've noticed I
  don't have the problem with the "Ubuntu Mono" font, it just seems to
  be the "FreeMono" font which is causing the problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: apport-gtk 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportLog:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: d7186b4470c29fb9bde4930265e9b32c
  CheckboxSystem: 7e42599bda39ea7ff8b528272b6ef52b
  Date: Thu May 17 23:33:07 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/apport/apport-gtk
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: apport
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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