Bug#354537: lmodern: lmtypewriter10 is unexpectedly all-caps

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

reassign 354537 gnome-control-center
retitle 354537 Problems with font selection
thanks

Hi,

Bruce McIntyre <bmcintyre@primus.com.au> wrote:

> In Gnome font preferences, LMTypewriter10 Regular 
> is the same as CapsRegular.

Indeed, I can reproduce this.

>                               Also OSF seem to be the default for all 
> Typewriter styles which, to me, is typographically strange, especially 
> in the context of a terminal font...

I don't understand what "OSF" means.

As a point of detail, LMTypewriter was not designed as a terminal font,
but as a font for printing text in a typewriter style (i.e., it was not
really designed for on-screen use, though it is now possible thanks to
FreeType).

I am reassigning this bug to gnome-control-center because:

  1. I checked the typewriter entries in lmodern's defoma hints file and
     I cannot see any mistake.

  2. The command:

        xterm -fa "LMTypewriter10:style=Regular" -fs 10

     gives the expected result, i.e. LMTypewriter10 in Regular style,
     not small caps.

I suspect it may be a more general GNOME issue because I see similar
problems with gucharmap (altough I seem to recall that the first time I
tried after reading this bug report, the problem wasn't there in
gucharmap... strange).

I also noticed similar problems in gnome-font-properties with LMRoman10
but the following tests with xterm are all successful, again:

  % xterm -fa "LMRoman10:style=Regular" -fs 10
  % xterm -fa "LMRoman10:style=CapsRegular" -fs 10
  % xterm -fa "LMRoman10:style=Oblique" -fs 10
  % xterm -fa "LMRoman10:style=CapsOblique" -fs 10

(though the spacing is not suitable for terminal use, which is expected
since LMRoman10 is not a fixed-width font)

Feel free to reassign the bug if you find evidence that it belongs to
lmodern. At present, I cannot find any.

Regards,

-- 
Florent