[ft-devel] Re: [freetype-autohint] Bitstream Vera and tilde

[August Karlstrom]

Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > Is it?  I can't see that with ftview, neither at 72dpi nor 96dpi.
> >
> > Sorry, actually it's not Bitstream Vera. The default fonts I'm
> > talking about are named Sans, Serif and Monospace (don't know if
> > they have "real" names). I'm using a screen resolution of 800x600
> > and 96 dpi.
>
>
> Without knowing which font you use we can't help at all.

I have compared Monospace and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono and they seem to 
be the same font. Anyway, if I select Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8 pt as 
the Terminal font in the GNOME menu (System -> Preferences -> Font) I 
get the incorrect rendering of tilde (it can't be distinguished from a 
dash). I consider this a bug. Even if the characters are not beautifully 
rendered they must at least be distinguishable.

I use the resolution 800x600, 96 dpi and the autohinter (configured with 
`dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig'). If I increase the dpi to 104 then tilde 
is correctly displayed, but then the font size is as large as if I would 
have selected 9 pt (which also gives the correct rendering). On my 
screen a 8 pt font is not very small at all and 9 pt feels too large.

You say that you can't reproduce the problem. Tell me what settings you 
have tried.


Regards,

August