Yes, Devanagari is written under a common stroke(line) it is not to be separated. So, it cannot have monospace between characters and different character merge to make ligature making it impossible to render monospaced. For example: Just see the Common line in the upper part. विम् देवनागरी अक्षरं सम्पादनं कर्तु नशक्नोति ।
That's the issue, devanagari cannot have monospaced fonts and grid wise treatment makes it difficult to render and input it. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 29, 10:54 pm, Ujjwol (उज्जवल लामिछाने) > <ujjwollamichh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > And does vim need monospace fonts ? Devanagari cannot have monospace > > fonts. > > > > Yes, Vim (and gvim) require monospace fonts. On some systems, you can > force the use of a non-monospace font in gvim, but it will look > strange because even then Vim will treat it as a monospace font. Vim > treats the screen as a grid of characters of a certain width and > height. Non-monospace fonts do not fit into this grid properly. > > What do you mean that "Devanagari cannot have monospace fonts"? Does > this mean that there are some features of the script that somehow > cannot possibly be represented in monospace? > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- Ujjwol Lamichhane http://ujjwol.com.np/ -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
