Spacing weirdness with Lucida Console font and bold text

[Worker]

With the settings given below, text won't always line up correctly. E.g, the "1"s in the following example don't line up:

return 1
xeturn 1

Fonts->Editor Font: Lucida Console Regular 10
Editor->Syntax Highlighting->Keywords: Bold

If I switch to another font like Courier New, this problem goes away. Is this a bug in the font, a bug in PL/SQL Developer, or am I just expecting too much?

Changing "Allow variable width for fixed width fonts" fixes it, but chops off characters.

PL/SQL Developer v7.1.5

Edit: this also happens with "Andale Mono", as well as a bunch of other fonts.

 

[Marco Kalter]

It seems like an issue with in the font. The bold characters simply take up more space than regular characters. The same thing happens if you paste the text in (for example) MS Word.

 

[marc.wilson]

Marco,

I have noticed same issue since upgrading to v.7.x of PSD.

I have used PSD for over 5 years at different clients and Lucida Console displayed "properly" (as fixed width characters) before v.7.x of PSD, regardless of bold or regular characters.

I see what you mean about pasting into MS Word with font Lucida Console, however, PSD v.6.x or less displayed Lucida Console properly. Something about the editor seems to have changed.

I just ran a test on a single host with both versions v.6.0.5.931 and v.7.1.5.1397 of PSD installed and 6.x displays fine and 7.x displays with bold characters wider than regular.

I can provide screenshots if you want.

I also use Lucida Console in PuTTY text windows and bold Lucida Console characters do not take additional space as compared to regular "non-bold" characters.

Any ideas?... I really prefer Lucida Console over Courier New (no-sarifs).

Thank you.

 

[Marco Kalter]

Version 7.1 has a new editor component compared to 6.0, so it may indeed render characters differently. But if the old editor could do it, than so should the new one. We'll check it out.