Re: Inconsolata 3.0 is no longer fixed width.

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 12:41:16PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 01:08:52AM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> > CVSROOT: /cvs
> > Module name: ports
> > Changes by: bentley@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/05/25 01:08:52
> >
> > Modified files:
> > fonts/inconsolata-font: Makefile distinfo
> > fonts/inconsolata-font/pkg: PLIST
> >
> > Log message:
> > Update to inconsolata-font-3.000.
> >
> > Upstream has moved to a googlefonts GitHub repository.
>
> Hi,
>
> I cannot use this font in xterm or emacs anymore.
> Looks like the new versions of the fonts are not really fixed.
>
> Which is confirmed by this message on the home page:
>
> Updated April 2020: Family has been upgraded to a variable font
> family.
>
> This github issue does pretty much explain what's going on:
> https://github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata/issues/42 :
>
> Xft is not able to deal with so-called monospace fonts which include
> wider glyphs, and there is no simple way to fix that.
>
> The emacs-gtk3 port could be told use the cairo bindings as it's
> already a dependency for gtk3, but for xterm it's not an option.
>
> For now I'll install the old version of inconsolata for myself.

We probably want to have the older font available as well...
or build from source without the ligatures ?