Re: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows
Thanks Tony.
Re: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows
- Original Message From: victor NOAGBODJI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vim@vim.org Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:06:56 PM Subject: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows Hello all, I'm quite a newbie to Vim. I've been using it under ubuntu dapper. With moria color plugin, the font was nice, easy to read. I think it's the default system font of ubuntu or something... Now under windows xp. It's bold, hard to read. It's the default system font. Now how can I change that to a nice clean, easy to read font? thanks I like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (use :set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h14:cANSI) you can download the font at http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html hth, John -- Sane sicut lux seipsam, tenebras manifestat, sic veritas norma sui, falsi est. -- Spinoza
RE: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows
-Original Message- From: John Degen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 9:25 AM To: victor NOAGBODJI; vim@vim.org Subject: Re: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows - Original Message From: victor NOAGBODJI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vim@vim.org Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:06:56 PM Subject: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows Hello all, I'm quite a newbie to Vim. I've been using it under ubuntu dapper. With moria color plugin, the font was nice, easy to read. I think it's the default system font of ubuntu or something... Now under windows xp. It's bold, hard to read. It's the default system font. Now how can I change that to a nice clean, easy to read font? thanks I like Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (use :set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h14:cANSI) you can download the font at http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html I add the following to my vimrc file: Change default FONT Set personal font, here is a review of different ones: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/6/11739/5249 Bitstream Vera Fonts, downloaded from: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ if has('win32') if filereadable(expand('$SystemRoot').'/fonts/Vera.ttf') For normal 11 point font set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h11:cANSI For bold 11 point font set guifont=Bitstream_Vera_Sans_Mono:h11:b:cANSI elseif filereadable(expand('$SystemRoot').'/fonts/Raize.fon') Raize (12 pt bold) set guifont=Raize:h12:b:cANSI endif endif Since I have many machines I use my same installation of Vim on, not all of them have the fonts I want. This will only set the font if it exists on the machine, plus a second favourite (Raize). Does anyone know how to do the same thing in Ubuntu (or *nix in general)? I am not sure where the fonts get stored on a *nix system. Dave
Re: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows
- Original Message From: victor NOAGBODJI [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vim@vim.org Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 2:06:56 PM Subject: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows Hello all, I'm quite a newbie to Vim. I've been using it under ubuntu dapper. With moria color plugin, the font was nice, easy to read. I think it's the default system font of ubuntu or something... Now under windows xp. It's bold, hard to read. It's the default system font. Now how can I change that to a nice clean, easy to read font? thanks Sorry link should read: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/ :) John -- Sane sicut lux seipsam, tenebras manifestat, sic veritas norma sui, falsi est. -- Spinoza
Re: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows
Thanks a lot for helping.
Re: about fonts : from ubuntu to windows
victor NOAGBODJI wrote: Hello all, I'm quite a newbie to Vim. I've been using it under ubuntu dapper. With moria color plugin, the font was nice, easy to read. I think it's the default system font of ubuntu or something... Now under windows xp. It's bold, hard to read. It's the default system font. Now how can I change that to a nice clean, easy to read font? thanks Set the 'guifont' option. What to set it to will depend on which language you are using. For Latin alphabet on Windows I recommend Lucida_Console; however it has no Arabic glyphs and its Cyrillic glyphs are not 100% fixed-width so for Russian and Arabic I fall back on Courier_New, which is less elegant but quite readable and supports many non-Latin alphabetic languages. For CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean) I use MingLiU but there are others. For example, for Latin alphabet I might use :set guifont=Lucida_Console:h10:cDEFAULT To see a fonts menu in gvim for Windows (and also in some but not all other flavours of gvim), use :set guifont=*. If you want to slightly adjust what is already set, you can use :set guifont=Tab where Tab means hit the Tab key. This method can be used in 'nocompatible' mode with any non-boolean option. It will fill-in the current value on your command-line, with escaping slashes if needed, and you can edit it in-place, then accept the changes with Enter or discard the changes with Esc. Or once you have exactly what you want, :set guifont=Tab will display on the command-line exactly what you need to write into your vimrc or gvimrc in order to set it that way every time. Notes: 1. After using the guifont=* menu, the language setting is IMHO usually too strict; in my experience it works best by replacing :cANSI, :cBALTIC or whatever by just :cDEFAULT which lets gvim choose the appropriate glyphs (in the various language variants of that same font) for any language you might be using. 2. The line :set guifont=something should either go in your gvimrc, or, if you put it in your vimrc, be bracketed by if has('gui_running'). Otherwise that line would give you an error if you were to run the console version of Vim, which doesn't know about 'guifont'. Best regards, Tony.