Re: Monospace font bug?

[David De La Harpe Golden]

David De La Harpe Golden wrote:

>  That's not to say there isn't one lurking in the some 
> package in the repos or something.


Ah. George Williams has produced a font literally called "Monospace"
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/sfds/index.html

It's not _currently_ included in the ttf-georgewilliams debian package, 
but has sometimes been included in at least ubuntu's on occasion.
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/feisty/i386/ttf-georgewilliams/1.0-1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gw-fonts-ttf/1.0-1


(after installing monospace.ttf)
address@hidden:~/gw-fonts-ttf-1.0$ fc-list  | grep -i monospace
Monospace:style=Oblique
Monospace:style=Medium
Monospace:style=Bold

emacs can pick it up and use it if it's there, unsurprisingly.

        character: % (37, #o45, #x25)
preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
       code point: 0x25
           syntax: _    which means: symbol
         category: a:ASCII graphic characters 32-126 (ISO646 IRV:1983[4/0])
                   l:Latin r:Japanese roman
      buffer code: #x25
        file code: #x25 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix)
          display: by this font (glyph code)

xft:-unknown-Monospace-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x08)