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Re: mintty fonts (was: Re: setup and mintty)


On May 26 09:42, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 26/05/2011 9:19 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On May 26 08:09, Charles Wilson wrote:
> >>On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >>>>On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> >>>>>On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> >>>>>I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see
> >>>>>an obvious way to request an account with them. Do you have one by chance?
> >>>>Nope, sorry.
> >>>>
> >>>>Clicking at the first hopeful-looking Google result for "Liberation
> >>>>Mono", I'd downloaded it from a site called dafont.com. Apparently I
> >>>>picked up an old version without that problem: 1.04.
> >>>I installed and use 1.06.0.20100721-3 from Fedora 14 without problems.
> >>Ah, but I installed liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721.tar.gz from
> >>https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/, and *DID* see the problem.
> >>That is, after installation, Liberation Mono did not show up in mintty's
> >>font selection window.
> >That's interesting.  I just hacked a simple test application which
> >calls ChooseFont.  The Liberation Mono font from F14 returns 0x31
> >in the LOGFONT lfPitchAndFamily member, so it's marked as fixed font.
> >
> >The liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721.tar.gz file from
> >https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ returns 0x32, so it's marked
> >as variable font.  This is certainly a packaging bug.
> >
> >FYI, I reported this as a packaging bug upstream:
> >
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707973
> Thanks!
> 
> BTW, is there an easy way to get the F14 version of the font 

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=liberation-mono-fonts


Corinna

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