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

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > 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!

That's my font, too. So where are the differences between your and my
setup, that could cause this?

Settings / Mail Preferences
 [ ] use the same fonts as other applications
 Terminal Font: Luxi Mono, 8pt


> > 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.

Sure, you are right.


> 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.

Printing issue: Uses the first font in alphabet. Seems unrelated.
Gnome default: Not sure, feels unrelated too, IMHO.


The big question is: *How* can fonts be rendered different? The reason
seems even not to be related to the font (as we use the same).

...guenther


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