[openbeos] Re: Fixed-width fonts in Haiku

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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