Fonts look ugly in X with gvim

["Steven Woody" <narkewoody at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

I am using gvim in X window of cygwin.  I selected a font Lucida
Typewriter same as I set for my windows version of gvim.  Lucida
Typewriter looks good in windows version of gvim, but in cygwin's
gvim, it's ugly, looks like there is a space between every character
and the letters are very thin.  Why's the wrong?  My font setting
statement is,

  set guifont=Lucida_Sans_Typewriter:h17:cANSI

I also tried the Bitstream. When I use the menu edit->select font, I
selected the bitstream versa sans mono in the font selecting dialog.
This way it worked and the bitstream looked not bad ( I still need the
Lucida thought ), and when I type in

  set guifont

in the command mode to see the font name, I got the font's name

  guifont=Bitstream Versa Sans Mono 18

But the problem is I can not made this setting forever in vimrc file,
the statement

  set guifont="Bitstream Versa Sans Mono 18"

will put the font settting back to its default, the guifont variable
was not set and became empty string. and, I also tried

  set guifont=Bitstream_Versa_San_Mono:h18:cANSI

still cann't really got the Bitstream, but this time the guifont
variable was set as expected.


What can I do with cygwin's font?  Thanks in advance.

-
woody


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