Linespace helped quit a bit. The MMCelWidthMultiplier 1.02 seemed too
large, but it didn't seem to support as fine a grain as 1.005, so I'll
leave it for now.

Thanks!

On Jan 3, 11:36 am, "björn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/1/3 David Alan Hjelle <[email protected]>:
>
>
>
> > I just opened my copy of SubEthaEdit, and I noticed that the text
> > rendering under the same font (9 point DejaVu Sans Mono) was
> > considerably more readable for code in SubEthaEdit. After a bit of
> > experimentation, I noticed that SubEthaEdit has a "Advanced" tab in
> > preferences that includes an option labeled "Disable screen fonts."
> > I'm afraid I don't have the expertise to know what this option really
> > does, but having a similar option in MacVim would greatly improve its
> > aesthetics.
>
> I'm not entirely certain, but I think "screen fonts" means bitmap
> fonts.  I vaguely remember some option to use these in the Cocoa
> frameworks, but I'll have to take a closer look and get back to you.
> (Jiang: do you know how this works with ATSUI?)
>
> > Otherwise, I noticed that Terminal.app has options to increase the
> > character and line spacing. These options might help a lot, too.
>
> To set linespace use the 'linespace' option, e.g.
>
> :set linespace=5
>
> Changing character spacing currently requires a bit more work.  Start
> Terminal and type:
>
> defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMCellWidthMultiplier 1.2
>
> Change the value "1.2" for whatever you like (the default is "1").
> You'll have to quit and restart MacVim for this change to take effect.
>
> Björn
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