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Bug 467924 - Font mapping 'Sans' not used
Font mapping 'Sans' not used
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: yelp
Classification: Applications
Component: General
2.19.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Yelp maintainers
Yelp maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-18 10:31 UTC by Reinout van Schouwen
Modified: 2011-02-08 15:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20


Description Reinout van Schouwen 2007-08-18 10:31:29 UTC 
On my system, the system fonts are set to "Sans" by default, which, as far as I know, is just an alias that maps to DejaVu Sans.

However in Yelp an ugly Times-like font is used as document font when Sans is specified (both when system font is used and not). I need to specifically select DejaVu Sans to get the right font. Instead, Yelp should use the actual (mapped) font as the rest of GNOME does.
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-08-18 10:32:04 UTC 
Yelp 2.19.90, by the way.
Comment 2 Sven Arvidsson 2007-09-03 18:04:29 UTC 
A similar problem was reported by a Debian user with Yelp 2.14.3.
http://bugs.debian.org/440433

Screenshot of the problem here,
http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot1tz0.png
Comment 3 Luca Ferretti 2007-09-12 21:00:53 UTC 
Reinout, are you using a jhbuild sandbox? I've a similar issue in Yelp and Epiphany in jhbuild sandbox; I was sure it was related to Gecko (firefox) installation/configuration/whatever, not directly to GNOME apps.
Comment 4 Claude Paroz 2007-09-12 21:03:51 UTC 
It's very ugly to read help with a Serif font, not to say that font size appear smaller...
How can we help to debug this, Don ?
Comment 5 Reinout van Schouwen 2007-09-12 21:55:53 UTC 
I'm using Mandriva Cooker.
Comment 6 Richard Neill 2010-03-17 04:39:43 UTC 
I think I see this too, in 2.29.5, but only if the document concerned is of type "info".  More specifically, it is now only broken for fixed-width fonts.

1. When viewing "gnome" or "man ls"  (type these into the search box),
then yelp correctly uses my specified variable-width font (10 pt Tahoma, Full hinting, no antialiasing). This is fine.

2. When viewing "info ls", then the left-hand pane is fine, but the right hand pane is not. Yelp is trying to use a Fixed-width font, but it does not respect my choice. I can't make it use either the gnome system font, or take any notice of the Yelp->Preferences->Fixed-width setting. As a result, it looks pretty hideous. (In my view, it should use 10 pt Terminus)


P.S. A minor aside: "man ls" shows up in Variable font. This is probably OK, but man-pages often expect to be in a fixed-font - is this ideal?
Comment 7 Shaun McCance 2010-12-20 19:12:24 UTC 
Is this still an issue with Yelp 3?
Comment 8 Tobias Mueller 2011-02-08 15:03:38 UTC 
I am closing as I assume that this bug is OBSOLETE. Please reopening if that's not the case.