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
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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
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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.
