We talked about this on the DejaVu mailing list and concluded it was because the TrueType instructions change the advance widths. Now, in my opinion FreeType/Pango should not allow monospaced fonts to change their advance widths, because it makes them no longer truly monospaced, but we shouldn't be trying to change the advance widths anyway. We've begun fixing the instructions and the fix for this particular problem is already in Subversion.
-- Pango renders lower-case "m" 1px too wide with DeJaVu Sans Mono https://launchpad.net/bugs/46406 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
