Hello Tbimbra,
I’ve never noticed this fact, because I usually work with the default Courrier New font
First of all, just have a look to my old post, on SourceForce forums, about the differences between the monospaced fonts and the other fonts, at the address below :
https://sourceforge.net/p/notepad-plus/discussion/331753/thread/5c8c669b/#2143
Now, let’s create, in a new tab of N++, a small text file, with the eight lines, below :
iiiii
IIIII
wwwww
WWWWW
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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Notice that the seventh line contains exactly 72 spaces (\x20)
Then, supposing that you previously choose 72 columns, in vertical edge settings, of the Settings - Preferences - Editing panel :
First, select these 72 spaces, at the seventh line of the new tab
Open the Style Configurator ( Settings - Style Configurator… )
Choose the language Global Styles
Choose the style Default style
Select, on the right, the Font name field
Use the Up and Down arrow keys, to change the current font
=> You’ll easily notice that :
The vertical edge line is between columns 72 and 73, ONLY IF the current font is a monospaced font
The physical width of the selection change, for all fonts, monospaced font or not
So, we can deduce that, in vertical edge settings, the number represents, rather, the number of spaces of the current font than the number of physical columns.
In addition, don’t forget that the physical width of a space is generally smaller than letters or digits, for NON monospaced fonts !
Here are two pictures with the Courrier New and the Lucida fonts
With Courrier New
With Lucida Sans
Best Regards,
guy038
P.S. :
BTW, could someone be so kind to tell me how to attach images, stored in my computer, to a NodeBB post ? As you can see, the two links With Courrier New and With Lucida Sans don’t work at all, infortunately :-(((
I currently use Firefox v38.0.5, on a Win XP SP3 computer
