On Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 3:26:57 PM UTC-4, Paul wrote:
> Here is a sample of the font families from "set gfn=*".  I only
> chose examples with monospacing
> 
>    Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
>    Courier 10 Pitch
>    DejaVu Sans Mono
>    FreeMono
>    Inconsolata
>    Liberation Mono
>    Monospace
>    Nimbus Mono L
>    Oxygen Mono
>    Source Code Pro   
>    Terminus
>    Unifont
> 
> Hmmm.  Now that I take stock, that's quite a selection.  Maybe I
> don't need more.  I was looking for something to fill the gap
> between "Monospace 7" and "Monospace 8", since it seems text size
> visually seesms to take a quantum leap bewteen those two.

I found a solution:

   set gfn=Monospace\ 7.5

The selection panel from "set gfn=*" may not permit non-integer font
size specifications, but the command line does.  And it doesn't round
off the number.

> Anyway, I'd still be interested in where vim searches for fonts.
> This aspect of vim is a bit of a black art to me.

Still interested, if any one knows...

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