On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 16:42 -0700, home user wrote: > I thought AR PL UKai CN Book is a monospace font. My understanding > is that Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters all fit in > uniformly-sized squares, and this should be true of sans-serif fonts, > Ming fonts, and regular fonts (includes AR PL UKai CN Book). So > 1. Why does AR PL UKai CN Book not qualify as a monospace font?
Just wondering: Does the font include Roman characters, as well? Or is your example combining Roman characters from one font, and the Eastern characters from another? > 2. What does qualify a font as monospace? Theoretically, a font should identify itself as such (so that other software can filter out/in monospace fonts from font selection choices), and its creator should accurately describe their font. It's not unknown for fonts to be faulty (three examples below). That can be immediately obvious when a glyph is badly drawn, but less obvious with metadata. I used to use MG Open Modata in a website name logo, because it looked nice and was easy to read. However, it's numerals are crap. They're oddly spaced. The inter-character kerning, and the width of some individual characters, are all wrong. Anyone who uses circuit diagrams is probably familiar with seeing something that's Chinese or Japanese, and their own language looks beautifully printed, but any Roman characters are typed like they came from a mangled typewriter. There'll be some letters shoved too far to the left or right, maybe even overlapping, or differently sized. Trying to put musical flat signs into text is next to impossible. Every font I've tried that has them puts a stupid fat space left of the flat sign. Music scoring software uses its own internal kludges to change the intercharacter spacing of a bad font, rather than supply a decent font. Without that kludge, trying to type E flat, for instance, had a whacking great big space (where none belongs) between the letter E and the flat sign, where you haven't even typed any blank spaces. And some music scoring overcompensates, so you end up with the flat sign starting to overlap the edge of the E, and looks almost like you'd typed B flat. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 4 23:02:59 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
