Re: understanding font setting in gvim for win32
set guifont=Lucida_Console:h10 Courier:h10 also works but other common fonts like Arial:h10 don't work. Is that because they are not mono spaced? gVim's only happy with monospaced fonts. I've heard rumors of being able to coerce it to used other fonts, but the results are usually pretty ugly. :help e236 for more on that. If I find a font which I like, must I put it into Windows' Fonts directory, yes? It must be accessible like fonts in any other program in Windows which generally means putting them in the system-wide fonts directory. I don't know if Win32 offers a means for a non-priv'ed user to add fonts to the system by putting them in some magic directory in their own branch of the Documents and Settings folder. But then I need to work out the syntax for it in _gvimrc. How do I work it out? OK, a space in Windows is probably an underscore, but is there anything else I need look out for? The easiest way is to simply use :set guifont=* and pick the font you want/like. Then, simply issue :set guifont? and Vim will tell you what it wants. There are a variety of characters that need to be escaped (spaces, commas, backslashes) all described in :help guifont -tim
Re: understanding font setting in gvim for win32
Hi Am 25.10.2006 11:53:42 schrieb o1792: But then I need to work out the syntax for it in _gvimrc. How do I work it out? OK, a space in Windows is probably an underscore, but is there anything else I need look out for? You can select a font with :set guifont=*. I you want to know which font is used, just type :set guifont. cu boesi -- Ein Wunder muss heute schon ganz schoen wundervoll sein um ein Wunder zu sein, sonst wuerde man sich ja gar nicht mehr wundern .-==Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch==-.
Re: understanding font setting in gvim for win32
Cool, many thanks boesi and tim for your answers! --- Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: set guifont=Lucida_Console:h10 Courier:h10 also works but other common fonts like Arial:h10 don't work. Is that because they are not mono spaced? gVim's only happy with monospaced fonts. I've heard rumors of being able to coerce it to used other fonts, but the results are usually pretty ugly. :help e236 for more on that. If I find a font which I like, must I put it into Windows' Fonts directory, yes? It must be accessible like fonts in any other program in Windows which generally means putting them in the system-wide fonts directory. I don't know if Win32 offers a means for a non-priv'ed user to add fonts to the system by putting them in some magic directory in their own branch of the Documents and Settings folder. But then I need to work out the syntax for it in _gvimrc. How do I work it out? OK, a space in Windows is probably an underscore, but is there anything else I need look out for? The easiest way is to simply use :set guifont=* and pick the font you want/like. Then, simply issue :set guifont? and Vim will tell you what it wants. There are a variety of characters that need to be escaped (spaces, commas, backslashes) all described in :help guifont -tim Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
Re: understanding font setting in gvim for win32
Tim Chase wrote: set guifont=Lucida_Console:h10 Courier:h10 also works but other common fonts like Arial:h10 don't work. Is that because they are not mono spaced? Courier_New (a fixed-width TrueType font) is usually better-looking (if not by much) than Courier (a bitmapped font). Also, Courier_New usually has a richer repertoire of foreign-language glyphs than many other fonts. See below how to find out which fonts are acceptable to Vim and try them out. gVim's only happy with monospaced fonts. I've heard rumors of being able to coerce it to used other fonts, but the results are usually pretty ugly. :help e236 for more on that. Vim must have a fixed-width font, except the GTK2 version, which doesn't run on Windows (it's one of the flavours of GUI for X11); and even then, non-monospaced fonts are indeed pretty ugly in Vim since it uses a fixed character cell: narrow letters like i would have too much space around them, and wide letters like m might get clipped at right. If I find a font which I like, must I put it into Windows' Fonts directory, yes? It must be accessible like fonts in any other program in Windows which generally means putting them in the system-wide fonts directory. I don't know if Win32 offers a means for a non-priv'ed user to add fonts to the system by putting them in some magic directory in their own branch of the Documents and Settings folder. But then I need to work out the syntax for it in _gvimrc. How do I work it out? OK, a space in Windows is probably an underscore, but is there anything else I need look out for? The easiest way is to simply use :set guifont=* and pick the font you want/like. Then, simply issue :set guifont? and Vim will tell you what it wants. There are a variety of characters that need to be escaped (spaces, commas, backslashes) all described in :help guifont -tim Or, once you have what you like, type :set guifont=Tab (i.e., hit the tab key after the equal sign). Vim will fill-in your current setting, with escaping backslashes if and where needed. On Windows there usually aren't many for the 'guifont' option, since spaces can be replaced by underscore. You can edit the value in-place (then Enter to accept or Esc to cancel) if you're not 100% satisfied; or if you are, write the line down and copy that verbatim to your gvimrc. Best regards, Tony.
