Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

From: Ross Boylan (RossBoylan_at_stanfordalumni.org)
Date: 12/29/03

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    Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:32:35 -0800
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org, Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>

    On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:09:47AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote:
    > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 08:45:34AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
    > > I see double spaced fonts when I start xterm. I don't know if it's
    > > related, though I'd love to fix it!
    >
    > Double-spaced horizontally, or vertically? Horizontally would normally
    Horizontally.
    > indicate you tried to use a non-monospaced font as an anti-aliased font ion
    > xterm.
    What determines whether I am trying to use it as an anti-aliased font?

    As detailed below, I can't figure out what font xterm is using, though
    I don't think I've done anything to override the Debian defaults.

    I found this in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/RELNOTES.gz :
     Release Notes for XFree86[tm] 4.2.1
    ...
    By default, xterm uses core fonts through the standard core API. It has a
    command line option and associated resource to direct it to use Xft instead:

       o -fa family / .VT100.faceName: family. Selects the font family to use.

    This sounds to me as if it should not be using Xft, and so, I think,
    anti-aliasing, by default.

    Other documentation suggests "fixed" is what gets used by default, but
    xterm -fn fixed
    xterm -fn 9x15
    both look reasonable

    xterm -fa fixed produces white on white
    xterm -fa 9x15 is OK (though quite big)

    I don't set the font anywhere in .Xresources
    /etc/X11/app-defaults/ doesn't seem to either, though UXTerm includes
    *VT100*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
    xterm -fn with that looks same as xterm -fn fixed
    xterm -fa with that is OK, though big.

    I don't know if UXTerm is relevant for me.

    In short, not only is it not working, but I can't even figure out what
    font it is using that is producing the problem.

    Here's my XftConfig, despite my suspicion that it's only relevant if I use -fa:
    --------------------------------------------------------------------
    dir "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
    #dir "/usr/local/share/fonts/TrueType"
    dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/FreeType"
    dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
    dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
    dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
    dir "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"

    #
    # alias 'fixed' for 'mono'
    #
    match any family == "fixed" edit family =+ "mono";

    #
    # Check users config file
    #
    includeif "~/.xftconfig"

    #
    # Alias between XLFD families and font file family name, prefer local
    # fonts
    #
    match any family == "charter" edit family += "bitstream charter";
    match any family == "bitstream charter" edit family =+ "charter";
    -----------------------------------------------------

    In particular, I have the fixed fonts in there, and I'm not sure this
    engine can handle them.

    Xf86Config-4 says, in part
    -----------------------------------
    Section "Files"
            #FontPath "unix/:7100" # local font server
            # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these
            FontPath "/usr/local/share/fonts/TrueType"
            FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
            FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
            FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
            FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
            FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
            FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
            FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
    EndSection
    ---------------------------------------

    Does anyone have any suggestions? 

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