[Geany] Default Geany font for Ubuntu Linux

Laszlo Nagy gandalf at xxxxx
Mon Sep 8 17:04:00 UTC 2008


Jason Oster írta:
> Geany uses the Scintilla text editor widget, which in turn uses a text 
> layout/rendering library called Pango to do international text 
> rendering. I believe (and someone correct me if I am wrong...) that 
> Pango does not use one specific font to do all of its rendering, but 
> will choose a "font" based on the glyph that it needs to render.
>
> For example, Geany simply requests the generic "monospace" font alias by 
> default. But as you can see in the screenshot, the Asian glyphs are not 
> displayed with a fixed width.
>
> Some more appropriate resources to check might be:
>
> http://www.pango.org/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pango
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I18n
> http://www.cairographics.org/
>   
That is bad news. :-( I've used pango before, but I was hoping that 
there is a simple font that can do this for me. Unfortunately, this 
won't work with reportlab and PDF. :-(



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