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[Tubercular Ox]

I'm using a pattern that gives each dwarf their own bedroom.  I'm considering building windows between them to help spot vampires.  Some questions:

1.  Will it work?  Can you spot vampires through windows? 
2.  How will it affect the happiness of my dwarves?  The wiki says windows create happy thoughts, but does sleeping in an exposed room cause problems?
3.  What are the rules of line of sight?  I need to judge window placement.  Specifically, does it pass through a diagonal?  I used a complicated bedroom design that needs that feature if I'm going to give every dwarf four neighbors.  And I think with planning I might draw LOS through several windows to dining rooms.
4.  Anything else I should consider?

[Tirion]

They see through windows and get happy thoughts if it's a gem window AKA Dwarven Disco Globe that includes a gem they like (Thoughts and preferences). However, you should place it in a way that dwarves coming and going see into them, as sleeping dwarves aren't good witnesses. Furthermore, you don't need any walls for a happiness-boosting bedroom, just value. You can mine out an ore vein or gem cluster, smooth and engrave it, build beds on every single tile of it, designate a bedroom for each, and they might still consider it great. Depending on layer material and room size, it might even be legendary- overlapping rooms are said to have decreased value, but I don't know the exact formula. Anyway, throw in some high-value statues, artifact furniture etc when needed... just be careful not to make room value too high, or nobles will get serious bad thoughts. They don't like commoners sleeping in Royal Bedrooms.

[i2amroy]

1)Dwarves can see through windows, though I don't know if they can spot vampires through them.
2)Sleeping in exposed rooms don't cause problems, in fact (as Tirion mentioned) dwarves don't even need walls on their rooms to be happy.
3)LOS works through diagonals, though a tight diagonal with two walls right next to it will only give sight along the diagonal as you would expect, so the chances of seeing anything with only 1 diagonal window are rather slim unless it is perfectly positioned.

Also the formula for overlapping rooms is to simply divide the value by 4. As such it is a perfectly feasible idea to simply make 1 huge room with a ton of beds and then designate the entire thing as a bedroom from every bed in the room.

[Tirion]

Also, if you want happiness from gem windows, it's best to build them along the corridor leading to the mass of bedrooms described above, using as many different kind of gems as possible. So whenever a dwarf goes to sleep, he admired a fine window if the gem he likes is built in any of them.

[Tubercular Ox]

For some reason I can't bring myself to build huge bedroom halls.  I like dwarves to have their own rooms.  Admittedly windows compromise that goal, but c'est la guerre.

Do glass windows ever create happy thoughts?

Thanks for the info.

[DTF]

Yes, windows count as furniture and thus a nice crystal glass window will make dwarves happy when they pass by it. They have the same value mulitplayer as statues too, so building some of these in your dwarves' rooms will boost their happiness even further.