[mythtv] Caption font problem

[Mark Kendall]

On 16 Jul 2010, at 07:57, Jim Stichnoth <stichnot at gmail.com> wrote:

> In SubtitleScreen::InitialiseFont(), the caption/subtitle font is
> hard-coded to FreeMono.  On my system at least, FreeMono.ttf has a
> problem where the 2-character sequence "st" appears as just "t", maybe
> with a tiny bit of extra space before the "t".  I guess this is a
> strange example of kerning or ligatures.  Other sequences like "ff" or
> "fi" also display with kerning.  I see this with EIA-608 closed
> captions, and also with text subtitles like .srt files.
> 
> First, why is a monospaced font using kerning?  In InitialiseFont(), I
> tried adding "newfont.setKerning(false);" and
> "newfont.setFixedPitch(true);", but to no effect.
> 
> Second, I tried switching the hard-coded font to "VeraMono" which is
> present in my system.  Apparently it couldn't be found, even after
> copying VeraMono.ttf into the same directories as FreeMono.ttf and
> running "fc-cache -f", because captions were now displayed in some
> proportional system default font.  I guess I don't know how to manage
> fonts in Linux.
> 
> Any ideas on how to disable kerning of FreeMono, or how to get Myth to
> use a different font 

Jim

Have a look at r25086. Setting the fonts is currently not working - if you could find out why, that would much appreciated:)

Regards
Mark