The ttfs are not recognised, in Windows 8, as fixed width (monospace)

[ahri]

I took the consolas font and ran it through the patcher (under Ubuntu) and then installed the output, which works in most places, but is not counted by gVim as an available font. This seems to be because it's not counted as a fixed-width font so gVim doesn't even show it when I bring up the guifont selection dialog using

:set guifont=*