Re: Initial font in the GUI terminal window and other font issues

[Torsten]

On 25.09.2013 02:48, Michael Goffioul wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 6:56 PM, John Donoghue
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> wrote:
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>     On 09/24/2013 02:05 PM, address@hidden
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>>     Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:52:46 -0400
>>     From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden> <mailto:address@hidden>
>>     To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden> 
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>>     Subject: Initial font in the GUI terminal window and other font issues
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>>     I've had reports that the GUI terminal window isn't working properly 
>>     because of the font used.  For example, the text is offset from the 
>>     cursor position or highlighting a text selection doesn't work properly. 
>>       These problems are happening because some proportional font is used 
>>     instead of a fixed-width font.  This sometimes seems to happen even when 
>>     people are just starting up the GUI for the first time.  How can we 
>>     ensure that an appropriate fixed-width font is used for the terminal? 
>>     Do we need to distribute a suitable default font along with Octave?
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>>     Similarly, should we be selecting a particular set of fonts to use by 
>>     default for the GUI menus and other items?  Of course, we should still 
>>     allow users to select the fonts they want to use if they have a 
>>     preference, or allow them to select the "default system fonts".  But I 
>>     think it might be good for us to set our own default set of fonts so 
>>     that the default appearance of Octave is predictable.
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>>     Comments?
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>>     I'm not sure how to do this properly in Qt.  Does anyone have experience 
>>     or expertise with selecting fonts and setting defaults in Qt?
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>>     jwe
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>     I wonder if the issue is due to the default font "Courier New" is
>     not being found?
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>     According to the QFont docs, you can specify font hints which will
>     be used if the requested font isnt found.
>     font.setStyleHint(QFont::TypeWriter);
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> http://http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/library/html/qt4/qfont.html#fontmatching
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> You may be right. Both QWinTerminalImpl and QUnixTerminalImpl define a
> default font with the QFont::TypeWriter hint, but I think this is always
> overridden by QTerminal::notice_settings. And notice_settings doesn't
> set the QFont::TypeWriter hint, so you may end up with a non-monospace font.
> 
> Michael.
> 

I have pushed changeset
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/a28c3fb15ad8
that adds the missing setStyleHint.

Torsten