Of course you can use any font in your (Vim) terminal or program, it's just a matter of taste. Fixed width fonts cause least trouble in putting everything on screen.
When you use Vim only for text writing and editing, and do pre print in a separate route eg. with pandoc, you can control the font that way. Printed text are better using proportional fonts. But they are awful for just writing and editing. //meine On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 03:44:54PM -0400, Eric Marceau wrote: > I have to *confirm* my similar experience, that some characters seem to be > using a width which is a multiple greater (and sometimes smaller) than 1 > (unity), and that for those characters (specified via Unicode reference), > there is overlap. > > Without knowing the guts of *GVim*, or *MATE terminal* (my environment), it > seems that the System-default (or Application-default) font for each of > those is applied universally, and *NOT on an individual character basis*. I > assume that that is because of programmer assumptions that people would NOT > use *mixed-width characters*, and so impose a single character width on the > entire content display. Obviously, that is an incorrect assumption, because > you never know what width the Creators of various fonts might use, and the > rendering engine should, in my estimation, be smart enough to recognize > character-by-character width (a.k.a. old poured-lead typography plates) and > apply those correctly where those are used. > > And then again, being a text editor which could conceivably by definition > not concern itself with variable width characters, if GVim had a "mode" > selector that would permit the setting of display rendering to one of the > two modes > > - universal fixed-width, or > > - typesetting variable-width, > > then Gvim could offer the best of both worlds. 🙂 > > Just my own two cents worth! > > > Eric > > 69, retired Mechanical Engineer > > > On 2025-05-01 00:02, brickviking wrote: > > On my computer at least, the characters each appear to be double-wide, > > and as a result of how gvim works, I get the left-hand side of the > > characters presented, which makes all the characters look all squashed > > up and overlapping. That's with the Terminus font on an earlier Fedora > > Linux. > > > > Regards, brickviking > > > > > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 at 05:26, 'Frank Schwidom' via vim_use > > <vim_use@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > It is on all terminals with vim and nvim but gvim cannot display > > the characters. > > > > On 2025-04-29 17:20:01, 'Paul' via vim_use wrote: > > > Is it only Vim, or is it anything in your terminal (ie. your > > font)? Does gvim show it OK? > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > 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 > > > > > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the > > Google > > > Groups "vim_use" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from > > it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > <mailto:vim_use%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > > > To view this discussion visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/aBD8Mcfi69hUOsTR%40kitt. > > > > > > > -- -- 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 > > > > --- -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/aBh6D6d312IqaD1G%40trackstand.
