In Firefox 3.6, IE7 and Opera 10 on Windows, this HTML has an odd behavior: <html><head></head> <style> span { font-family: monospace; background-color: green; } span.b { font-weight: bold; } </style> <body> <span>Text</span><span class="b">Text</span><span>Text</span> </body> </html> The bold span in the middle is shifted dow...
I am trying to fit a WPF RichTextBox to exactly accommodate a grid of characters in a particular monospace font. I am currently using FormattedText to determine the width and height of my RichTextBox, but the measurements it is providing me with are too small--specifically two characters in width too small. Is there a better way to per...
I have a ASP has a Function that converts ä to ä so far so good. I have lets say space for 10 char's if there are more cut them of if there are less fill the space up with  's. . Like this: test             but if i say "täst" it does this: te ä t   It interprets the ä not as one char...
I have a PangoFontDescription and I want to know whether it describes a monospace font. I have seen the function pango_font_family_is_monospace() in the Pango API documentation but after several hours of puzzling it is still not clear to me what the relationships are between PangoFontFamily, PangoFontMap, PangoFont, PangoFontset, Pango...
I made a program that generates ASCII art from an image. I want users to be able to copy and paste that ASCII art to their wall and have it display properly. Problem: Facebook doesn't use a monospace font. Does anyone have any ideas on a workaround? ...