[Bug 30007] New: Publish or perish result text messed up in wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30007

Bug #: 30007
           Summary: Publish or perish result text messed up in wine
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.4-rc5
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
    Classification: Unclassified

To reproduce:

1) Install publish or perish (it is a no cost app)
2) Start the application, see it opening on the author impact tab.
3) write a common surname in the authors search field
4) See the publication list fill in (sometimes the surname is too common and
the application finds too many publications, pick another surname in the case)
5) Look at the result pane. It is unreadable, because multiple pieces of text
appear overlapped one to the other.

Those results are what one is actually looking for. So the bug makes the
application useless under wine. This is a pity, since wine is advertised as the
way to run publish or perish on linux by its very authors.

[Bug 30007] Publish or perish result text messed up in wine

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30007

--- Comment #1 from Vitaliy Margolen  2012-02-25 11:22:55 CST ---
Terminal output? Link to download this application?

[Bug 30007] Publish or perish result text is messed up

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Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Publish or perish result    |Publish or perish result
                   |text messed up in wine      |text is messed up

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Dan Kegel  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |download
                URL|                            |http://www.harzing.com/down
                   |                            |load/PoPSetup.exe
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]

--- Comment #2 from Dan Kegel  2012-02-25 21:11:18 CST ---
http://www.harzing.com/pop_wine.htm is their page about running on wine.
http://www.harzing.com/download/PoPSetup.exe is the installer.

[Bug 30007] Publish or perish result text is messed up

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30007

--- Comment #3 from Sergio Callegari  2012-02-26 07:22:28 CST ---
Note that among the "known bugs when working under wine" the PoP authors list

Results summary columns not aligned
    Because Wine uses a slightly different font than native Windows, the
alignment of the columns in the Results summary text field is slightly off.

Evidently, what in the past was a mere misalignement has more recently become a
full overlapping of different parts of text.

[Bug 30007] Publish or perish result text is messed up

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30007

--- Comment #4 from Sergio Callegari  2012-04-17 16:51:44 CDT ---
Hi,

I have noticed that the issue is with wine handling of the TAB character.

If you go on the messed text, select all, copy and paste into an editor capable
of showing TABs, (e.g. on kate if using kde on linux) you will see that all the
text is correctly copied and that in the editor it looks just fine.

The problem appears to be wine doing things like taking

This bit of text -TAB-> This other bit of text

and rather than rendering as

This bit of text       This other bit of text

(where the second "This" starts at the next tab stop after the end of text)

renders it as

This biThis other bit of text

In other words, the problem seems to be wine miscomputing where to start text
after tab stops.

Please mark the status as confirmed as it is quite easy to check that the bug
exists. And if possible try looking into it: it is a pity that a piece of code
that actively advertises wine cannot be used in wine.

[Bug 30007] Publish or perish result text is messed up

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30007

--- Comment #5 from Sergio Callegari  2012-04-17 16:52:18 CDT ---
BTW. Bug is confirmed in latest unstable 1.5.2

[Bug 30007] Publish or perish result text is messed up

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30007

--- Comment #6 from Rosanne DiMesio  2012-04-17 21:36:19 CDT ---
I can't reproduce this; the columns appear perfectly aligned on my system
(tested in 1.5.2). However, I have the MS corefonts installed systemwide. Does
winetricks corefonts fix it for you?

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Ken Sharp  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |ABANDONED

--- Comment #7 from Ken Sharp  ---
No answer.

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Bruno Jesus  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #8 from Bruno Jesus  ---
Closing.