understanding font setting in gvim for win32

2006-10-25 Thread o1792
I've been trying to change fonts in my win32 vim. I don't find a font directory in the vim tree, so I take it Win fonts are begin used. Right now in my _gvimrc, I have: set guifont=Lucida_Console:h10 Courier:h10 also works but other common fonts like Arial:h10 don't work. Is that because they are

Re: understanding font setting in gvim for win32

2006-10-25 Thread Tim Chase
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

Re: understanding font setting in gvim for win32

2006-10-25 Thread Alexander 'boesi' Bösecke
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

Re: understanding font setting in gvim for win32

2006-10-25 Thread o1792
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

Re: understanding font setting in gvim for win32

2006-10-25 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
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,