Bug#1020244: fonts-urw-base35: A monospaced font shouldn't have ligatures
Package: fonts-urw-base35
Version: 20200910-4
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: mah@merchantsedition.com
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Installing and using font Nimbus Mono in a programming oriented text
editor.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Type words which expose ligatures in font Nimbus Mono. For example
'office' or 'affected'. Verified in Gedit and Geany.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Several characters, like 'ffi' or 'ff', get squeezed into the width of
a single character. That's counterproductive, as the whole point of a
monospaced font is to use the same width for every character.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Character sequences like 'ffi' to be three characters wide. Character
sequences like 'ff' to be two characters wide.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages fonts-urw-base35 depends on:
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.7+6
fonts-urw-base35 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages fonts-urw-base35 suggests:
pn fonts-freefont-otf | fonts-freefont-ttf <none>
pn fonts-texgyre <none>
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