From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/6359 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Moore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Using proportional fonts in Gnus Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:29:04 +0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671887 31180 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:36:41 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cse.psu.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!199.218.7.141!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.stueberl.de!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: arkenstone.demon.co.uk Original-X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1135207676 28558 80.177.167.183 (21 Dec 2005 23:27:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:27:56 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zSo8a8bYtjEt7mbLnVnxnNMh4GQ= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:6501 Original-Lines: 26 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 6501 Tue Jan 17 17:36:41 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:6359 Archived-At: 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searched the archives for any information on this, but there seems to be very little around (and what I found is pretty out of date, so it's entirely possible that things have moved on...)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. -- It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -- G. H. Hardy