what should demo look like?

[themaddoctor]

What should the demo look like?
I can see no discernible text in it. Just lines tightly packed together.
Is this how it /should/ look?

[behdad]

It should kinda look like this:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=62080

[themaddoctor]

Then it failed utterly on my system.

[behdad]

What platform / driver?

[themaddoctor]

linux 64-bit, gcc 7.1.0 glibc 2.26.
Not sure what you mean by driver, unless you mean nouveau of kernel 4.14.2

[themaddoctor]

This is what it looks like for me:

[behdad]

Humm. That's the most corrupt I've seen the demo perform! No idea where to go from here.

[themaddoctor]

Maybe I'm missing the font that you use?

[themaddoctor]

I'm hoping to get this resolved before I build libreoffice

[behdad]

Maybe I'm missing the font that you use?

No, there's no way you should get what you are getting.

I'm hoping to get this resolved before I build libreoffice

Oh, does libreoffice use GLyphy after all? I thought that was abandoned.

[themaddoctor]

I don't really know, except to say that the BLFS (beyond linux from scratch) book says that glyphy is optional for LO.

What can I do to help narrow down the cause?

[behdad]

If you just want to move on with building your system, just skip GLyphy. It's not a strict requirement of anything.

[themaddoctor]

I understand that, but it sounds like a neat thing to have. The way my system is rendering fonts now seems a little off (they look clearer is some areas than others, probably due to where the pixels are relative to the glyphs. I'm not explaining it well.)

[themaddoctor]

Anyway, you were right, and the BLFS book was wrong. LO did NOT want to include glyphy.

[mgood7123]

This is what it looks like for me:

this could be a incorrect font file? eg #37

[13rac1]

FWIW Here's what it looks like as of today in Mint 21.1 (Ubuntu 22.04)