[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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[Bug 561318] Liberation Mono font is not actually monospace, causing layout problems

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--- Comment #1 from Conrad Sanderson <conradsand(a)ieee.org&gt; 2010-02-03 06:40:59 EST
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Created an attachment (id=388510)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=388510)
example of the layout problem in Gedit

shows the layout problem in Gedit.
Selected font is Liberation Mono 9.

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--- Comment #2 from Conrad Sanderson <conradsand(a)ieee.org&gt; 2010-02-03 06:42:00 EST
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Created an attachment (id=388511)
 --> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=388511)
layout problem in kwrite

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Yanko Kaneti <yaneti(a)declera.com&gt; changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
                 CC|                            |yaneti(a)declera.com
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE

--- Comment #3 from Yanko Kaneti <yaneti(a)declera.com&gt; 2010-02-05 06:09:37 EST ---


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508899 ***

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