Re: Please, suggest a font!

> 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.

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