> 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 <volkerdi@slackware.com>
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.
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