There are also some very nice free monospace fonts that you can use. Personally, I use DejaVu Sans Mono (part of the DejaVu Fonts - http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page) on both Windows and Linux and I'm very happy with it.
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:17 +0200, "Tony Mechelynck" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19/04/11 09:36, Alexander Stepanov wrote: > > Monospace fonts... That's very said. Thank you for explanation. > > > > If you mean "very sad", this is due to the fixed size of the character > cell in gvim, something so fundamental to Vim's mode of operation that > it is not going to change. > > In gvim for GTK2, the only gvim flavour which accepts even non-monospace > fonts, the result when using them is ugly, since they are still > displayed within constant-size character cells, with the consequence > that "narrow" characters (such as i) look lonely in the middle of a cell > too wide for them, while "wide" characters (not in the CJK sense, but > letters such as m) look cramped in a cell hardly wide enough to contain > them. > > > Best regards, > Tony. > -- > If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the > shoulders of giants. > -- Isaac Newton > > In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side > with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. > -- Gerald Holton > > If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing > on my shoulders. > -- Hal Abelson > > In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. > -- Brian K. Reid > > -- > 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 > -- Mathew Brown [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- 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
