Re: Add sans-serif and monospace fonts (issue 224800043 by address@hidden)

[dak]

On 2015/03/31 22:18:11, c_sorensen wrote:
> On 2015/03/31 15:57:54, dak wrote:
> > Shouldn't we rather be selecting the Courier and Helvetica fonts
(standard
> > PostScript) and rely on GhostScript and/or font installation to
cater for the
> > font substitution to Nimbus when required?
> >
> > That's not a rhetorical question: I don't know the answer myself.

> IIUC, the problem that we had was that the font installations for some
systems
> did not include ligatures, so we proposed to make a selection, rather
than
> allowing the system default to apply.

The PostScript default fonts have well-defined metrics including
ligatures.  That's different from a non-specific "system default font"
according to Pango.  At least it _should_ be different.  I was not
talking about asking Pango for "Sans" or "Fixed", but for "Helvetica"
and "Courier".

PostScript is required to do something with that request that at least
results in well-known font metrics.  I don't know whether Pango is
similarly well-defined for that request, however.

https://codereview.appspot.com/224800043/