[Sugar-devel] #606 UNSP: SoaS includes lots of fonts that don't work in Write (Soas2-200903211320)

[Edward Cherlin]

The fonts in your list that render as "tiny letters that all
overprint" are mainly fixed-size bitmap console fonts that should not
be used in a GUI.

I don't understand why Lucida Typewriter would have a problem, nor do
I understand why only one Lucida font is inclueded in SOAS. The Lucida
family of TrueType fonts is usually distributed with Sun Java, in the
sun-java6-jre package.

Hershey is a family of PostScript fonts for ghostscript. They don't
render correctly onscreen in Gnome Character Map on Ubuntu, either.

We need to check whether the two failing Symbol and Dingbats fonts are
in the correct font format. MT Extra and the math fonts render
correctly, but are evidently not Unicode fonts.

The cmmi math symbol font is intended to be used without spaces
between characters. It is behaving as defined. However, none of these
TeX fonts should be on the menu in Write. Aren't they there for MathML
in Browse? (BTW, there are some characters missing for MathML).

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:18 PM, SugarLabs Bugs
<bugtracker-noreply at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> #606: SoaS includes lots of fonts that don't work in Write (Soas2-200903211320)
> ------------------------------------------+---------------------------------
>    Reporter:  garycmartin                |          Owner:  sdz
>        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  new
>    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
>   Component:  SoaS                       |        Version:  Unspecified
>    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:
> Distribution:  SoaS                       |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed
> ------------------------------------------+---------------------------------
>  Just wanted to run through the fonts currently installed in Soas and
>  indicate the ones that render correctly in Write, and the ones that don't.
>  I'm sure OLPC's distro has a set of fonts that all functioned well in
>  Write and very likely supported more language scripts (will go look-up
>  that list following this ticket):
>
>  Bitstream Charter = good
>  Century Schoolbook L = good
>  Console = tiny letters that all overprint
>  Dingbats = Just Prints Uue Code For All Keys I Tried
>  Fixed = tiny letters that all overprint
>  Hershey-* (all 9 of them) = badly corrupted characters and broken line
>  spacing
>  Lucida Typewriter = tiny letters that all overprint
>  MT Extra = good
>  MiscFixed = tiny letters that all overprint
>  Nimbus Mono L = good
>  Nimbus Roman No9 L = good
>  Nimbus Sans L = good
>  Standard Symbols L = just prints UUE code for all keys I tried
>  URW Bookman L = good
>  URW Chancery L = good
>  URW Gothic L = good
>  URW Palladio L = good
>  Utopia = good
>  cmbx10 = good
>  cmex10 = good
>  cmmi10 = no spaces work
>  cmr10 = good
>  console8x8 = tiny letters that all overprint
>  eufm10 = good
>  msam10 = good
>  msbm10 = good
>  wasy10 = good
>  Times New Roman = good
>
> --
> Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/606>
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