> No, that's not possible: Vim relies on character cells all the same size, > with the top and bottom of letters such as x at the same height, which in > turn means a single font all over. Normal, Italic, Bold and BoldItalic are > considered "the same font" for this purpose, which leads to problems when, > for instance, bold Cyrillic glyphs of a font (such as Lucida Console) are > one pixel wider than their non-bold counterparts. > > The GTK2 version of gvim will accept to set 'guifont' to a proportional > font, and it will also fetch missing glyphs from whatever "likely" font has > them, but the results are usually ugly, because thin letters such as > lowercase L are surrounded with blank space while fat letters like m are > clipped at the character-cell border, and glyphs from different fonts don't > look good next to one another. > > 'guifont' can be set to a comma-separated list of fonts, but IIUC gvim > globally uses the first installed font in the list, unlike the HTML > rendering engine of your browser, which, for each character, uses the first > installed font in the list (of <font face="list"> or of <span > style="font-family: list">) which has a glyph for it. >
I see, thanks. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
