Default fonts in img formatter are backwards

[Anteru]

(Original issue 1221 created by scolby33 on 2016-03-16T02:33:26.073910+00:00)

In the documentation, it is stated that the default font for the img formatter is '“Bitstream Vera Sans Mono” on Windows, Courier New on *nix.'

However, at lines 48-49 of pygments-main/pygments/formatters/img.py we have:

#!python

DEFAULT_FONT_NAME_NIX = 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono'
DEFAULT_FONT_NAME_WIN = 'Courier New'

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono is not even shipped on OS X.

I think this is a duplicate of issue #868, but that has languished for two years now and, since this is such a simple fix, I figured I would bring it to attention again.

[Anteru]

(Original comment by scolby33 on 2016-03-16T02:44:49.622307+00:00)

See pull request #569 for my suggested solution.

[Anteru]

(Original comment by birkenfeld on 2016-03-16T06:00:52.322608+00:00)

It is definitely intended that Vera is used on Unix, and Courier New on Windows; the documentation is wrong in this case.

As for Mac OS X, #868 seems to imply that font selection is even more broken, and it needs a more comprehensive fix.

[Anteru]

(Original comment by scolby33 on 2016-03-16T06:03:12.667295+00:00)

In that case, I believe a third case for font selection should be added, since by default Vera will not work on OS X and the package is broken out of the box.

[Anteru]

(Original comment by birkenfeld on 2016-03-16T06:17:09.394125+00:00)

Sure. Which font is the best default nowadays? Menlo?

[Anteru]

(Original comment by birkenfeld on 2016-03-16T06:18:27.042323+00:00)

(Should also change the Unix default to DejaVu Sans Mono since that is what most distributions are shipping now instead of Vera.)

[Anteru]

(Original comment by scolby33 on 2016-03-16T06:45:49.619696+00:00)

From what I can tell, my default installation came with these monospaced fonts:

• Andale Mono
• Courier
• Courier New
• Menlo
• Monaco

Courier lacks italics (it has obliques though). The default font used in Terminal is Menlo, which comes with Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic.

[Anteru]

87dc697 changes it to Deja Vu Sans ... now I need to update the docs, and then we can resolve this. For Mac OS, I assume you'd want Menlo?