Try to get it recognized as monospaced

This issue seems to have (for some reason) a bit of traffic coming its way.

Following is a description of how I got Fontforge to generate a font (i.e., this font) that (in my experience) is recognized as monospaced on all the platforms:

The most important clue can be found here: https://fontforge.org/docs/faq.html#faq-monospace
- However, there is (currently) a mistake in the description of how to check if all characters have the correct width! While the answer tells to look in "Element->Find Problems->Random->Check Advance" I remember it being more complicated/not obvious:
  1. select all glyphs (e.g., with ctrl-a)
  2. click "Element -> Find Problems..." in the menu bar
  3. Instead of going into the "Random" tab (where no "Check Advance" can be found), click on "BB" where it is possible to tick "Check Advance".
  4. Make sure that the correct width is set in the "Check Advance" option
  5. Click "Ok" and all glyphs with an incorrect width are going to be pulled up.
  6. Edit all glyphs to have the correct width.
- I did not have to change the "OS/2 -> Panose -> Proportion" field by myself (I have the "Default" checkbox enabled) As soon as all my glyphs had the same width, Fontforge automatically changed the Proportion field to be "Monospaced".

In Monofoki, currently ALL glyphs have a width of (in my case) 575. Even the combining marks! There are also no glyphs with double the width. I could imagine that zero width and double width glyphs are allowed in a font that can be recognized as monospaced, however I did not experiment with that. I have the suspicion that fontforge might just not allow it. (Other font tools might(?))

In any case, the "OS/2 -> Panose -> Proportion" field, when using the default settings, only changes to Monospaced when all glyphs have the same width. Zero width glyphs (e.g., for combining marks) are not allowed!

datMaffin / monofoki

Try to get it recognized as monospaced #19