[Fontconfig] Re: Luxi Mono

Bob Tennent rdtennent at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 3 09:18:10 PST 2006


 >|> Is the lack of "spacing=100" for Bold [Oblique] significant?  If so, why
 >|> are Bold [Oblique] not properly tagged?
 >|
 >|The lack of the spacing values is significant; this value is determined
 >|by examining the font and checking the spacing of each glyph; fonts
 >|where glyphs have different spacing values will not be marked as
 >|monospace 
 >|
 >|Using fontconfig 2.4.1, you could override this by editing the spacing
 >|value detected in the font with the configuration file.

I tried the following:

 <match target="font">
   <test name="family">
      <string>Luxi Mono</string>
   </test>
   <edit name="spacing" mode="assign">
     <int>100</int>
   </edit>
 </match>

but it didn't seem to have the desired effect.  


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