[Dillo-dev] weird font

[Jorge Arellano Cid]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:06:30PM +0100, Johannes Hofmann wrote:
> Hi Jorge,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:46:45PM -0300, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   On some sites I get weird fonts. Today I got to isolate the
> > problem. See attached file. Here it displays like this:
> > 
> >     http://www.dillo.org/test/xmp2.png
> > 
> >   The embedded CSS says:
> > 
> >     pre { font-family: MS Courier New, Courier, monospace; }
> > 
> >   If I remove "MS Courier New", it works OK.
> >   Any clues?
> 
> There are multiple issues with font selection:
> 
> * The CSS parser only returns the part until the first blank
>   ('MS' in this case).
> * StyleEngine currently does not handle comma separated font name
>   lists (see \todo comment).
> * ::fltk::font(name, fa); in fltkplatform.cc does not offer a way to
>   determine  whether a font with that name actually exists on the
>   system. Instead if no exact match can be found, it guesses a
>   replacement font. This makes it impossible for dillo to choose the
>   right one from a given list.
> 
> In your specific case, fltk gets the string 'MS' and on your system
> it seems to find some funny font that has a similar name.

  Thanks for the detailed explanation.

-- 
  Cheers
  Jorge.-