Re: [pygame] Monospaced fonts are meant to be mono-spaced, right?

[Sam Bull <sam.hacking@xxxxxxxx>]

OK, so I registered a bug on this, and it's possible that it is a bug
with the rendering library. Can anybody who knows anything about the
pygame.font module, look at the bug report and see if you can add any
information to this?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ttf-freefont/+bug/1001033

Thanks,
Sam Bull

On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 11:23 +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Nicholas Seward wrote:
> > The letters may be different lengths.  However, the letters should be
> > spaced equally.  For example,"i" will be shorter than "w" but "hit"
> > and "hot" should be the same length.
> 
> No, that's not the way it should work. I just tried an experiment:
> 
>  >>> f = Font("VeraMono.ttf", 12)
>  >>> f.size("e")
> (7, 15)
>  >>> f.size("i")
> (7, 15)
> 
> I suspect that the system is not actually giving you a
> monospaced font. If it doesn't recognise the font name
> you give it, you'll probably get some default font. Have
> you tried rendering any text with the font to see what
> it looks like?
> 
> I've given up on using SysFont because the results are
> too unpredictable cross-platform. I always bundle my
> own fonts with my games and use Font to load them
> explicitly.
> 
> I like to use the Bitstream Vera fonts. They're nice,
> small and very liberally licensed.
> 
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
>