Ubuntu
fonts-android package

Droid Sans Mono is not exactly monospace

Bug #1010095 reported by Lachezar Dobrev
12
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fonts-android (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

The Droid Sans Mono font has different character sizes in normal and bold variants, including the italic combinations.
This affects numerous programs that use the Droid Mono font, or those using Monospace family, since Monospace is aliased to Driod Sans Mono by default.

I am attaching a screenshot.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: fonts-droid 20101110+git-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Jun 7 19:33:16 2012
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: fonts-droid
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-06-05 (2 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Lachezar Dobrev (lachezar) wrote :
Revision history for this message
Jason Tackaberry (tack) wrote :

Droid Sans Mono only has one style: Regular. Bold or Italic styles are being programmatically generated by LibreOffice. So the problem isn't with the Droid Sans Mono font, but rather (arguably) with LibreOffice.

Revision history for this message
Lachezar Dobrev (lachezar) wrote :

Libre Office is just for the display.
Other products (like the Terminal!) use the font and having improper attributed style leads to a very poor experience.

If there is no bold/italic etc. form of the font, I fail to see the reasoning to make it the default monospace font in the first place...

Since the UI to map fonts has been nerfed (in Xubuntu at least you can only specify a default font) I was forced to manually edit my ~/.fonts.conf to set monospace to 'dejavu sans mono'. I do not mind editing configuration files, but I sincerely believe a smart default here would negate such a need in the first place.

The absurd view of my code editor (with monospace that is not mono-spaced) is a constant reminder of this issue.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in fonts-droid (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: fonts-droid (Ubuntu) → fonts-android (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
A. Eibach (andi3) wrote :

 There is *definitely only* the Regular style of this font. I can say for sure for I've just used this font for a small part of my conky text output and it would not respond on either the italic style or on the bold one.

To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.
Subscribing...

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.