[Bug 966654] Re: Monospace fonts have too much space between glyphs

[Peter Hurley]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 972223 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/972223

After reading the upsteam comments here http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2012-04/msg00001.html 
I agree that strictly speaking reverting the commit to get a dense monospace font appearance is not the right way.

In the case of this bug (bug# 966654), the use of integer scaling (as
opposed to fractional scaling) is controlled by a single Flags bit in
the header.  When I get a moment, I'll put up a utility here to patch
the font header.

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Title:
  Monospace fonts have too much space between glyphs

Status in “freetype” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Monospace fonts in Ubuntu have traditionally had tight spacing between
  glyphs due to using fractional pixel sizes (through Pango).

  Commit b0962ac3 in freetype upstream has introduced extra spacing
  between monospace glyphs by forcing integer scaling of text metrics.

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