strange mix of fonts used in columns of numbers?

[Scott Anderson]

--- David Hampton <hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 09:13 -0400, John Clements wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that different fonts are used for different numbers.   
> > About halfway down the screenshot is a "2944.44" that's in a smaller  
> > font than all the others. There are other differences that could  
> > perhaps be accounted for by non-fixed-width fonts, but this one is  
> > really goofy.  Is this just an X server configuration issue, or is  
> > Gnucash using different fonts in different rows deliberately?
> 
> As far as I know, gnucash uses the same font for all text printed in the
> register.  All text typed by the user is in the specified font, and
> hints supplied by the register (i.e the words 'Description', 'Transfer',
> etc.) are in the italicized version of that font.  Other than this
> normal/italic change, the same font is used throughout the register.
> 
> For what its worth, the register font used by 1.8 is Adobe Helvetica
> medium 12 point, if I read the code correctly.  2.0 uses whatever font
> is specified as the gnome system font.
> 

Not that this helps you fix this, but 5+ years ago, mozilla
and X had a problem that looks similar to this one.  I googled
"mozilla text looks bad font" and found some discussions commenting
on the problem.

The GUI has gone through some big changes lately...

What fonts do you have on your system?  Can you tell what font gnucash is using?

Scott

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