[Bug 561318] New: Liberation Mono font is not actually monospace, causing layout problems
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Summary: Liberation Mono font is not actually monospace, causing layout problems
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561318
Summary: Liberation Mono font is not actually monospace,
causing layout problems
Product: Fedora
Version: 12
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: medium
Priority: low
Component: liberation-fonts
AssignedTo: cchance(a)redhat.com
ReportedBy: conradsand(a)ieee.org
QAContact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: petersen(a)redhat.com, cchance(a)redhat.com,
fonts-bugs(a)lists.fedoraproject.org,
fedora-i18n-bugs(a)redhat.com
Classification: Fedora
Description of problem:
The "Liberation Mono" font is not really monospace. This causes layout problems
in text editors (e.g. when editing source code).
I have experienced this with size 9 (haven't tried other sizes), on three
editors: gedit, kwrite and kate.
Given that gedit and kwrite are using two different toolkits (GTK+ and Qt), it
would appear that the bug is either in the font itself, or somewhere in the X
server.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 12 + updates as of 29 January 2009.
How reproducible:
Always.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an editor like gedit.
2. Change font to Liberation Mono 9.
3. Type in several columns of numbers, with spacing between the columns.
Actual results:
Text columns do not line up cleanly.
Expected results:
Text columns line up cleanly.
Additional info:
I'll attach a few example screengrabs (as followups to this bug report) which
show the problem.
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