Closed Bug 179667 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Some lines starting with a > (like quoted lines in some mail archives) are sloped.

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Text and Fonts
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
trivial

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: robert.holmberg, Assigned: blizzard)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021110 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021110 All quoted lines beginning with a '>' in the XFree86-xpert mail archives are sloped, see URL. This is RH8 GTK2/Xft build 2002111012 from kommodo. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to the specified URL. 2. Behold the sloped text. Actual Results: Lines beginning with '>' were sloped. Expected Results: The lines should not have been sloped.
Not sure what you mean by "sloped" but the text there is intentionally designed to appear in italics.
The source code looks like this: </i>&gt;<i> I have experimented with lwm (light weight window manager). I had noticed So this is intentional, and the italics are displayed in IE5 and Opera6 as well. Marking Invalid.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
it DOES appear that way, but... Reporter : scroll the text in italics in such a way that it aligns with the winodow border. I think you will see that the lines are not sloped, but in fact are perfectly horizontal. So, nomintating this one for WFM. If you repeat my little experiment and find the lines to be horizontal (instead of sloped) you can mark it as WorksForMe yourself.
PLEASE IGNORE (forgot to CC myself to monitor follow-ups)
No, I DO mean sloped, not italic. Check this screenshot: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/rahholmb/Screenshot.png It seems that all text using the font 'monospace' as the monospaced font is sloped. Changing the font to 'Courier New' in prefs seems to fix this.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
I'm not seeing this. However, ->blizzard.
Assignee: font → blizzard
which font were you using for monospaced fonts when you saw the bug?
could this be theme related? Have you tried with a clean profile and one of the standard Moz themes?
I get the same result with a freshly created profile and the 'Classic' theme. The fon used is called 'monospace' but 'Andale Mono' looks the same and gives the same result, so they are probably the same on my system. The font seems to work correctly when set as my gnome2 system font. Changed the severity to trivial since I can work around this by choosing any other font as my monspaced font. 'Andale Mono' works fine when set as the proportional font btw.
Severity: normal → trivial
That's a bug in freetype 2.1.2. Please either get the fixed rpm from Red Hat (our rpm includes a patch that fixes it - see Red Hat 8.0) or downgrade to an older freetype version. (This is quite possibly one of my most favorite bugs of all time, if only just for the visual effect.)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Blocks: gtk2
I updated to freetype 2.1.3rc3 and the bug went away, thaks! My fonts seem less blurry too, so it's a double win.
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