Re: gaps in stacked symbols

[Danilo Segan <danilo gnome org>]

Luca Padovani <lpadovan cs unibo it> writes:
>
> Note however that the parentheses have been shaped with a non-scalable
> font which I'm not able to identify!! (the gucharmap applications says:
> Fixed, no more than that). Is there any way for querying which font was
> actually used? I'm curious since I haven't been able to reproduce the
> latter screenshot on any other machine but my laptop.

"Fixed" usually means -misc-fixed-* which comes with XFree86.

You can find out a bit more by running eg.

  $ fc-match Fixed

which will point out at the font file in use. Generally, refer to
fontconfig documentation to see what's the algorithm for choosing a
font.


HTH,
Danilo