[openbeos] Re: Fixed-width fonts in Haiku
- From: "Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:02:22 -0700
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:22 +0200, Stephan Assmus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > How does the Font preferences applet in Haiku determine which fonts to
> > show in the "Fixed width" pull-down menu? Does it look at isFixedPitch,
> > numOfLongHorMetrics, or something else?
> >
> > I am trying to help the author of Konatsu font determine why the fixed
> > witdh KonatuTT does not show in the Font applet, so any insight on this
> > is very much appreciated.
>
> It is a flag which Freetype reads from the file. I'm pretty sure the actual
> glyphs are not analysed. In our app_server, we read the flag here:
>
> src/servers/app/FontFamily.h
>
> in FontStyle class:
>
> FT_Face::face_flags & FT_FACE_FLAG_FIXED_WIDTH
>
> Maybe you can grep the Freetype source for this flag to find out more... :-)
>
> > If it is preferable to post this on another list, or as a bug report,
> > please point me in the right direction.
>
> IMHO, it's perfectly fine to post such things here... :-)
>
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>
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