[MonoDevelop] osx Lucida Grade warning: a typo?

Michael Hutchinson m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com
Sat Nov 29 14:32:58 EST 2008


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Bart Masschelein <masschel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I compile Monodevelop from trunk on OSX, which works very well, and
> lots of congratulations to the MonoDevelop'ers for making such a great
> IDE, with imho a very close to Visual Studio experience, my beloved
> IDE on Windows. Of course, there are still some issues, like the
> following one:
>
> Selecting text in osx is not correct, in that the cursor always is
> slightly off when clicking with the mouse. The farther to the right in
> the line, the more off the cursor is. Could the following warning be
> related to this issue:
>
> Pango-Warning: couldn't load font "Lucida Grade Not-Rotated 14",
> falling back to "Sans Not-Rotated 14", expect ugly output.
>
> When I google for Lucida Grade, it does not give me any results, but
> Lucida Grande does (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucida_Grande), which
> is apparently a Mac OS specific font. Could this be a typo? And is it
> coming from MonoDevelop, or is it a Pango issue?

It appears to be a typo in the Mac addin:

http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewvc/trunk/monodevelop/main/src/addins/MacPlatform/MacPlatform.cs?view=markup

However, the selection problem is a separate issue. Could you file a bug report?

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Michael Hutchinson
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