Using proportional fonts in Gnus

[Paul Moore <pf_moore@yahoo.co.uk>]

I have searched the archives for any information on this, but there
seems to be very little around (and what I found is pretty out of
date, so it's entirely possible that things have moved on...)

I am sick and tired of using fixed-width fonts for my newsreading.
Specifically, the range of fixed width fonts available to me on
Windows is minimal, and Courier New is the best of a bad lot (I know,
pathetic isn't it?)

What I'd like to do is to switch to a proportional font. This works
fine for the article window (I need to do some Emacs magic to make
the default face different in the article buffer(s) only, but that's
OK...) but I'd like to do the same for the summary and group windows.

The problem with the summary/group windows is that they condense a
lot of information into a small space, and Courier New is not a good
font for doing this. But if I switch to a proportional font, then
using spaces to put things in columns doesn't work.

Is there any way of maintaining a column-based display while still
using a proportional font?

Paul.
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