Re: Monospaced font

This is either for completeness, or it's spam. I made another attempt to 
try and track down the 'Monospaced' TTF file. The most informative find 
for me was the third page related to GNU Unifont: 
http://czyborra.com/unifont

That page removes a little more mystery from how Microsoft fonts are 
related to Unicode.

I also finally put more effort into looking at the TTF files in 
'C:/Windows/WinSxS'. I think this is all on topic for jEdit. In the 
past, with code editors in general, I quit making any changes to font 
defaults. Things generally didn't look better, and making changes ended 
up being a big hassle, full of mystery.

The first three links below are the important part. This GNU Unifont 
might be useful to others in jEdit, even if it's lower quality. Roman 
Czyborra explains the why of low quality.

The GNU Unifont page is here:

http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html

That leads to:

https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/unifont

Which leads to:

http://czyborra.com/unifont/

Which leads to sections "Didn't others try this earlier?" and "Lucida 
Sans Unicode," where finally I get a font filename to search on: 
'l_10646.ttf'.

I search in 'C:/Win/WinSxS' and it shows up. As an aside about how fonts 
can be ridiculous, in Notepad++, the letter 'l' and the number '1' look 
near exactly alike, and I discover that 'l' is a letter when I search on 
'l_10646.ttf' and find it on the web:

https://github.com/caarlos0-graveyard/msfonts

This is very convenient, but most likely illegal (but thank you very 
much anyway 'caarlos0-graveyard'). On http://czyborra.com/unifont he says:

"You get the point: the Lucida font is beautiful but not free..."

With Microsoft fonts, the licensing part is key for me. So maybe I'm 
wasting my time looking for the TTF file for 'Monospaced'.

Okay, I quickly find out that 'Lucida Sans Unicode' is not 'Monospaced'. 
I really want to find the TTF file, but there's a problem. Unless I read 
that a specific file is 'Monospaced' I can't determine that the TTF file 
is 'Monospaced'. If I put a TTF in 'lib/fonts', the Oracle doc says that 
'lib/fonts' takes priority over the OS location. But if they look 
identical, how do I know 'lib/fonts/foo.ttf' is 'Monospaced'? I guess I 
look through the many fonts in jEdit, to see that no new font name shows up.

GNU Unifont has given me some good info to use, which is the file size 
of 'unifont-10.0.07.ttf', which is about 12MB. Most TTFs are less than 1KB.

I search again in 'C:/Windows/WinSxS', '*.tff", with the file explorer 
FreeCommander.

You might ask? "And wasn't lots of searching in 'C:/Windows/WinSxS' 
something you should have been doing early on?"

To which I reply, "Well, yes, but it would take lots of words to explain 
the problem of searching with Windows File Explorer, versus using 
3rd-party file explorers, like FreeCommander, all of which I eventually 
quit using because they never quite work right. Do you want me to explain?"

You probably reply, "No. In fact I quit reading this sometime back."

Now I see a number of files in the >4MB size: 'simsunb.ttf', 
'malgun.ttf', 'malgunbd.ttf', and 'malgunsl.ttf'.

Are any of these 'Monospaced'? It could be that the TTF file size 
doesn't have to be big, but it seems the 'Monospaced' TTF should be 
larger than normal.

Maybe 'Monospaced' is a composite that the OS fakes jEdit into seeing.

But if I can't find a TTF on the web which clearly states I can 
distribute it, I guess GNU Unifont has to be my 'Monospaced'.

Regards,
GB

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