[scribus] Oddness with new version of Junicode font

[Owen]

> On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 11:56:03 +0000
> Hirwen HARENDAL <harendalh at hotmail.com> dijo:
>
>>> I opened an old document that used the Junicode font and quickly
>>> noted that Scribus added about an m-dash width of space after the
>>> lowercase h, but only before certain letters. My Scribus is 1.4.0
>>> on
>>> Fedora 16, x86_64.
>>>
>>> Can someone install this font and see what happens when you type
>>> etc...
>>
>>** I use Scribus 1.4.0 on LMDE, and all works fine with Junicode
>>0.7.2Nothing in the font I inspected could justify your result...
>>Hirwen
>
> Hmmm. I forgot to mention that I am using Xfce desktop envionment,
> although Gnome 3 and KDE are also installed. But I can't think of any
> reason that the desktop environment could cause Scribus to do this. I
> mean, Scribus is pretty rigorous about displaying fonts exactly. And I
> don't understand why the font displays correctly in LibreOffice
> Writer,
> but not Scribus.
>
> Need more testers of Junicode 7.2 on other platforms and desktop
> environments. To repeat, just copy and paste the following into a text
> frame and see how Scribus displays it using Junicode 7.2:
>
> ha
> hb
> hc
> hd
> he
> hf
> hg
> hi
> hj
> hk
> hl
> hm
> hn
> ho
> hp
> hq
> hr
> hs
> ht
> hu
> hv
> hw
> hx
> hy
> hz



I just downloaded the font, here are the results.


http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/scribus/junicode.pdf


OpenSUSE-12.1, svn version of 1.4.0 as of a couple of days ago




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Owen