On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:29:54AM +0200, Jehan wrote: > Where I have issues here is about the "column to and from width" > problematic. With fixed-width font, one column = 1 character. With > proportional, it is more difficult. Should we still consider 1 column > = 1 character (so columns are variant size?)?
I think all terminal emulators do this -- If you give them a
proportional font, then they treat it as one column = one character.
That is, you find the width of the widest character in the font, and
draw all characters that wide.
Curses applications (e.g. Vim) will behave very very badly if you don't
make this assumption. (The GUI version of Vim I think does not even
allow you to specify a non-fixed width font for display.)
Thus while proportional fonts are more readable, you shouldn't use them
in terminal emulators. The only place we currently use a proportionally
spaced font is to draw tab titles and menu items (Xft only I think).
GI
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