[Bug 21197] hinted numerals aren't fixed-width in all sizes of dejavu sans font
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Wed Apr 15 16:02:01 UTC 2009
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21197
--- Comment #1 from Werner Lemberg <wl at gnu.org> 2009-04-15 09:02:01 PST ---
Reading the redhat bug description I see that you are not using the TT hinter.
With the autohinter I fear this problem is unavoidable. It probably has to
be handled on a level higher than FreeType: If you pass a font to the library,
the autohinter simply doesn't know that the digits 0-9 are intended to have the
same width. As you certainly aware there are fonts containing `old digits'
which intentionally have different widths.
I can imagine that there is an option to `fontconfig' which forces the
same width to all digits if the autohinter is used (probably using the average
value of all digit widths).
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