problem with tahoma font with xfontsel

[smorks]

hi everyone, i hope this hasn't been asked before... anyways, everything has been working great for me so far, i just have one minor hiccup...

basically, the tahoma truetype font looks weird in amsn. it looks find everywhere else, just amsn seems to be causing problems for some reason.

screenshot:
http://andybrandt.com/images/tahoma1.png

i've read most of the topics about fonts and stuff, and everything seems to be setup correctly...

thanks!

[smorks]

well, apparently it's not just an amsn problem. i loaded up xfontsel and got the same results when viewing the tahoma font. i also tried out some other true type fonts and they worked fine. anybody exerience this or is able to duplicate it?

here are the screenshots of xfontsel:

http://andybrandt.com/images/tahoma.png

and

http://andybrandt.com/images/verdana.png

any help would be appreciated! thanks!

[hawkz]

I have the same problem...

when I create the xfs font cache the tahoma.ttf font uses "char cell" and not proportial spacing... hence the huge gaps.. ('-c-' not '-p-' like normal in fonts.scale)

Its really weird, but it seems to be mkfontdir/mkfontscale that recognise the font wrong.

Or maybe this is a bad version of the font itself

Any ideas?

[hawkz]

fixed it...

i needed to uncomment: