Re: [Devel] fixed pitch fonts: should isFixedPitch be honoured?

[Keith Packard]

Around 17 o'clock on Mar 23, David Turner wrote:

> It's not that we could ignore the isFixedPitch flag from the "post" table,
> _if_ we have another test that is sufficiently reliable to replace this..

I've discovered quite a few fonts which don't set this flag, so I've 
started simply ignoring it.  The only reliable mechanism I know of is to 
walk the font and look at the advance widths of every glyph.

However, I fear that even "monospaced" fonts will have varying advance 
widths.  Right now, I have the application tell me whether it wants 
monospacing and then force the advance widths to the maximum value for the 
font.  That works, but doesn't allow the application to locate a font 
based on this property.

address@hidden   XFree86 Core Team              SuSE, Inc.