Re: Courier text overwritten by following text

[Jeff Kingston]

I tested this here and it was fine for me.

In any case it's caused by confusion over the width of the
characters.  Lout comes with "font metrics" files that you
can find in directory "font" of the distribution.  These
determine how big Lout thinks all the characters are.  There
is nothing wrong with the file for Courier.  What is happening
is that your display device (screen or printer) has a different
opinion about the width of these characters.  It presumably
does not know how to calculate Courier 7p, so it has substituted
some other size (or even font) instead, whose widths differ.

Jeff Kingston


On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:24:27 +0000, Barrie Stott wrote:
  > 
  > Suppose I have the following in a document set at 12pt ( and there is
  > nothing special about the `mmmmm' text):
  > 
  >     mmmmm {Courier Bold -5p} @Font {mmmmm} mmmmm
  > 
  > I would have expected the spaces between the three mmmmm's to be
  > similar but that between the second two depends on the Courier text
  > with some Courier text causing a nasty overlap. This prompts a couple
  > of questions.
  > 
  > Is this normal behaviour? Can anything be done to overcome it?
  > 
  > In case it is relevant I have a Debian Sarge system running lout-3.24.
  > 
  > Barrie.