Font Settings

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Duckrow,

thank you for trying this, and getting back with the outcome.

I am unsure what else to suggest to get it working as it should work.
Hopefully an experienced member will be able to help out, or maybe someone has came across this issue before.

[Duckrow]

I reinstalled leaped but no change. I think I can live with it.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Duckrow,

I am only a beginner to using Linux, I hope it helps solve the problem.

[Duckrow]

Thanks. I will do that and let you know. I'm grateful for the help btw.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Duckrow,

it tells you a little about Leafpad (and gedit) here
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/69703.html

Leafpad taps into the system fonts library so users are not stuck with a single default font. A preview window in the Options tab shows what each font looks like in each of the four accompanying styles -- Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Similarly, point sizes range from 6 to 72.

The fonts showing in the list of Leafpad but displaying as boxes, are these fonts installed in the system fonts folder /usr/share/fonts  ?

If the fonts are in the system fonts folder and not working in Leafpad , it may be worth uninstalling Leafpad and reinstalling it again, then retrying those fonts.

[Duckrow]

Courier 10 pitch is the name of a font in a long list of available fonts on leafpad that show up when I click options/font. If it is set to that or one of a handful of others the text displays in that style. Clicking on any other font renders the text as square symbols. The font appears tied to the program and not the document. If the document is then opened in libre office it is in Liberation mono which is presumably a text format.
Its odd as I seem to remember leafpad working similarly to a word processor rather than just a text editor and I'm not sure why fonts would show in the list but not work.
I have quite a few fonts and they are all in /usr/share/fonts

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Duckrow,

yes, I follow now.
I am unsure if there is a way to set system wide settings for every installed software or how to do that. It may be possible with for example Leafpad and LibreOffice as they have not been added to LL.
Fonts can be in the fonts folder for LL, or they can be installed in the fonts folder of a specific program, (or both).
re; I have fonts installed in Gimp folder that are not installed for use in LibreOffice or any other programs, as I know I will only use those fonts on Gimp images.
In theory any installed program should be able to use the fonts installed in the LL fonts folder.
That said some programs may be designed by default to only look within their own fonts folder. You may be able to alter the programs so they look in the system fonts folder, or otherwise if this is not possible on any specific program you may be able to install the font into its font folder.

On your choice of fonts in Leafpad does it show Courier font in size 10 as available ?
If so once opened in Leafpad if you click within the text saved as Courier 10 pitch, does the font change in Leafpad to courier 10 pitch ?
Example - in LibreOffice when I open a document that uses Calibri font it displays as Calibri but the font settings display as Liberation serif.
If I click within the text of the document the font setting in LibreOffice changes to Calibri of the same size, and newly added text will use Calibri font.
But if I clicked on a new line after the Calibri text then entered additional text, it would use the Liberation serif font and the fonts would then be different in the document.
Clicking within the documents text saves the need to change the default font setting manually in LibreOffice to match the document, does this work in Leafpad too where the font is installed ?

[Duckrow]

Thanks for the reply.
I had the problem occur first in my email and as I said I found a solution in forcing messages to display in fonts I had.
My Libre Office Documents are fine so I see it isn't a system wide problem after all.
In leafpad the files display in certain fonts only.
Courier 10 pitch displays fine but not courier new. Most fonts don't render correctly in leafpad; Times new Roman, Arial etc. so I have set leafpad to use a font that does work.
If I open a file in libre office saved in Courier 10 pitch in leafpad it opens as liberation mono. Which seems odd.

Perhaps leafpad is not meant to use these other fonts? If so, which font should I set?
The email came from the head of an arts society so it could be that she uses an "arty" unusual font.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Duckrow,

could it be possible they are none English character sets and these are not installed ?

[Duckrow]

Hi,
I've been using ubuntu and derivatives for some years but am very low on the learning curve none-the-less.
I recently found some email messages and documents opening as a series of squares and suspect the font settings. I downloaded and installed apple fonts (already have ms fonts) to try and fix this but it hasn't.

Perhaps it is something obvious. but documents I have made in the past are not displaying correctly in leafpad. If I change the font to wingdings or some others it reads in the preview but Times New Roman and other common fonts dont.

I resoved the issue in my email by unchecking the allow messages to use other fonts box in advanced display settings of thunderbird.
I've never fully understood what character encoding is but wonder if it is that. The problem is that I dont see a system wide setting for that.