Re: Also: odd GtkHTML behaviour with monospaced fonts (was Re: [Evolution] forward with attachment bug)

["D. D. Brierton" <darren dzr-web com>]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 00:43, guenther wrote:

> Strange, shouldn't that be the same font?

It *is* the same font! That's what's so weird. In both windows GtkHTML
is rendering the same text in Luxi Mono, but in one window the spacing
is all messed up and in the other it isn't!

> However, I had the same problem after a fresh install: The mail
> "preview" pane had smaller spaces than other chars, don't remember
> Composer though.
>
> I worked around that by setting another font and blamed it on a the
> default font. Unfortunately I don't know which it was.
>
> Does changing the font work for you, too?

Yes, but that's not really the point. This shouldn't be happening at all
(in fact I'm completely baffled how it does). After all, changing from
one monospace font to another monospace font shouldn't make any real
difference, and it is *very* odd that it displays correctly in the
composer window but not in the preview pane. And it's not as if Luxi
Mono is some crappy font - it comes with XFree86 and is RHL9's default
monospace font for all apps.

There are already some other bugs with GtkHTML's font handling (printing
is messed up, and the GNOME default monospace font is not used) so I
don't know whether to add this as a comment to an existing bug report or
create a new bug.

Best, Darren

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