On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 02:20:37 pm John Culleton wrote: > On Monday, June 06, 2011 10:13:02 pm Tony Mechelynck wrote: > > On 06/06/11 23:00, John Culleton wrote: > > > Because the font was too small for readability I changed it on the fly > > > to Minion Pro at 14 points. The result had a blank space between each > > > two glyphs which was of course even less readable. > > > > > > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Apr 4 2011 01:21:36) > > > > > > Included patches: 1-154 > > > > > > Compiled by <[email protected]> > > > > One more line from the :version header would have been useful; also the > > answers to Ben's questions. > > > > > What did I do wrong? > > > > If you are using gvim with GTK2 GUI, it is possible to set the 'guifont' > > to any font, even a proportional (i.e. variable-width) one, but the > > result is ugly: "narrow" glyphs such as i and l seem "too far" from > > their neighbours, while "wide" glyphs, not in the CJK sense but e.g. M > > and m, may look "cramped", all because of being displayed in a > > fixed-width character cell<span class="pedantic"> (and <img > > src="../emoticons/shrug"> I know that hard tabs, nonprinting characters > > and CJK double-width glyphs are displayed in more than one cell each, > > which is totally irrelevant to the discussion at hand, but I have been > > insulted in the past, told that what I was saying was "incorrect", just > > for not mentioning it)</span>. > > > > Best regards, > > Tony. > > VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3 (2010 Aug 15, compiled Apr 4 2011 01:21:36) > Slackware Linux 13.37 > > > I'll try a monospace font but larger point size.
Yes with the default monospace font I was able to increase the point size to 14 pt and everything works fine. I used the Select Font item on the bottom of the edit menu. -- John Culleton "Death Wore Black" Police procedural: http://www.deathworeblack.com/ "Create Book Covers with Scribus" www.lybrary.com/create-book-covers-with-scribus-p-74177.html -- 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
