> From: Guy Harris
(snip)
> > Another problem comes to my mind:
> > the GTK2 font selection cannot filter between fixed-width and
> > non-fixed-width fonts.
> > The current GTK1 dialog will show only the fixed-width fonts (using
> > some GTK filtering),
> > this functionality isn't available in GTK2.
> > There seem's to be no solution for this :-(
>
> There's a mail message from Owen Taylor on this:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-July/msg00202.html
>
> "Give us code that can distinguish reliably between monospaced and
> not-monospaced fonts for Type1 and TrueType fonts and at that
> point it becomes reasonable to think about such an API. It's
> not all that easy to do.
Having fiddled with fonts back in my TeX days, this comment
seems ludicrous. In fact a message or so along in the same thread,
Allin Cottrell replies with some sample code which uses a simple
heuristic to determine whether a font is monospaced:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-July/msg00212.html
Not sure if this is of help for ethereal, but it might be worth a look.
> Even then, there are still problems - Pango by default will
> draw characters not in the main font using fallback fonts --
> whose metrics almost certainly don't match your grid. So,
> you'd have to be able to turn this off."
No idea about the impact of this one.
regards, Eric
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