Re: Programming With Proportional Fonts?

On 23/01/10 11:21, Nicolas Aggelidis wrote:
> have you seen this?
>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/17/0715219/Programming-With-Proportional-Fonts?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
>
> whats your opinion?
>
> is there anyway to use some proportional fonts ,like Lucida Sans, in
> gvim (windows/linux)?
>
>
> best regards,
> nicolas
>

I haven't yet read this all thread, but here's the answer, as clear as I
can make it:

- Gvim with GTK2 GUI accepts any installed font to be set in gvim. In
other versions, only monospaced fonts are possible. However, if you try
to set a prpoortional font in GTK2 gvim, the result will usually be
ugly, because your "proportional" font will still be displayed using
fixed-size character cells, so some characters (such as l or i) will
have too much blank space around them, while others (such as m) will
look cramped.

- This "fixed character cell" concept is so fundamental to Vim that it
is not going to disappear. NEVER. The only way would be rewriting it
from the ground up, and you could just as well give the resulting editor
a different name, since it will hardly contain any code from
Vim-as-we-know-it.

- This means the following:
* Most glyphs occupy one character cell each.
* CJK "wide" glyphs occupy two character cells each; an additional
"empty" cell is prepended if the glyph would otherwise start on the last
cell of a screen line.
* Some characters are displayed by means of more than one glyph,
including the hard tab (either ^I or, more commonly, one or more spaces)
and non-printing characters (which may appear, depending in part on some
option settings, as ^U, ~Z, |K, <85>, <FEFF>, <7FFFFFFF>, etc.).

- If you want a free-software program that works as well or better than
MS-Write for WYSIWYG word processing, don't use Vim, use oowriter.

Best regards,
Tony.
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Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write
in BASIC after reaching puberty.

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