Re: SVN lmodern commit: r1203 - in lmodern/trunk/debian: . sed_scripts

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

Hi,

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

>>  1. xlsfonts | grep "latin modern"
>
> -unregistered-latin modern roman-bold-i-expanded--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
> -unregistered-latin modern roman-bold-i-expanded--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15
> ...

OK.

>>  2. xfontsel -pattern "-unregistered-latin modern roman-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-15" -scaled
>> 
>>     and click on pxlsz to increase the size.
>
> Gives me interestingly old-style numerals

Same thing here[1]. I've put a screenshot at
http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/tmp/lmodern-screenshots/0.99.3/xfontsel-lmr10.png

This did *not* happen with an older version (probably 0.86) as shown
by my old screenshots at:

  http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/tmp/lmodern-screenshots/old/

I don't know why we have these old-style nums. With "Make string" in
gfontview, this does not happen...

>>  4. xterm -fa "LMTypewriter10:style=Regular" -fs 10
>
> Gives me some interestingly spaced terminal with old style numerals and
> wide line spacing.

Same here (well, the spacing is not that outrageous; it is still
readable, but I agree a bit large). Screenshot here:

  http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/tmp/lmodern-screenshots/0.99.3/xterm-lmtt10.png

Again, the same test with an older version (probably 0.92) brought no
old-style nums...

  http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/tmp/lmodern-screenshots/old/xterm.lmtt10.png

>>     xterm -fa "LMTypewriter10:style=Italic"  -fs 10
>
> Nice italic terminal.
>
> I didn't even know that this is possible ;-)

That's FreeType. :-)

>>  5. Start gucharmap, then:
>> 
>>       View -> By Unicode Block
>>       Select the block "Latin-1 Supplement"
>>       Select a few of the LM fonts
>
> I tried the 4 LMxxxx fonts, LMRoman10, LMSans10,
> LMTypewriter10, LMTypewriterVarWd10
>
> Seemed to be ok.

OK.

> So if you are content with this outcome, please dch -a, change the
> UNRELEASED tag and do the tests you would do. Then someone could upload.

OK. I fear that it doesn't work with XFree86 anymore due to the new
paths. I'll check that.

BTW, how did you manage to have your Xorg working now wrt fonts? New
packages fixing bugs, or manual fixing of the configuration?

Thanks for testing.


  [1] 'Here' is sarge's XFree86 but everything else from sid (I'm in my
      sid chroot and it has $DISPLAY=localhost:0.0.

-- 
Florent