Re: Where does gvim look for fonts in cygwin x-windows

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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