[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "A.J.Mechelynck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 2006.07.31 > 01:17:38: > >> Dr. Johannes Zellner wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Apparently, there are only very few monospaced unicode fonts in Windows >>> which can be used with vim. >>> >>> On Linux I like to use for example the efont unicode font for xterm. >>> I installed this font as a ttf file on Windows, but it doesn't appear >>> in the vim font selection dialog. I seems that there are fonts (with > the >>> .ttf suffix for the font file) wich appear on the vim font selection >>> dialog (for example "Courier New") and some which don't. >>> >>> 1. Can I make the efont ttf font available for vim on Windows? >>> 2. More generally: is there a way to convert Linux fonts (e.g. from bdf >>> or pcf) to windows fonts which can be used with vim? I'm especially >>> interested in unicode (iso10646-1) fonts. >>> >>> Any help much appreciated. >>> >> I don't know how to import fonts, or from where, but while editing in >> Unicode I have found that: >> >> - The Windows Courier_New font has, at least, glyphs for Latin, Cyrillic >> and Arabic. Probably some others too. I use it on Windows for Unicode, >> except with CJK (i.e., Chinese-Japanese-Korean). >> >> - If you want fonts with CJK glyphs, there are several listed in the >> fonts dialog. Those with @ prepended are rotated fonts, used to print >> ideograms in such way that they will appear in columns after rotating >> the paper 90° clockwise. Fonts with the same names but without the @ are >> used to print ideograms in successive lines, as with Latin. The Chinese >> (traditional), Chinese (simplified) and Japanese fonts have many glyphs >> in common; I think some can be used for all three (MingLiU ? Can't check >> at the moment as I'm currently on Linux). >> >> - I recommend leaving the :c part of the 'guifont' option at DEFAULT so >> gvim will be able to get the necessary font where it is available: e.g. >> >> :set guifont=Courier_New:h14:cDEFAULT >> >> - If you have, let's say, Arabic and Chinese in a single document (like >> my frontpage http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/index.htm ) you >> may need to set 'guifont' to Courier_New or to a CJK font depending on >> which part of the file you're currently editing. It is of course >> possible to map it to a single-key shortcut such as: >> >> :map <F6> :if &gfn =~ "Courier" <Bar> set gfn=MingLiU:h16:cDEFAULT >> <Bar> else <Bar> set gfn=Courier_New:h12:cDEFAULT <Bar> endif <Bar> set >> lines=999 columns=999<CR> >> >> :map! <F6> <C-O>:if &gfn =~ "Courier" <Bar> set >> gfn=MingLiU:h16:cDEFAULT <Bar> else <Bar> set >> gfn=Courier_New:h12:cDEFAULT <Bar> endif <Bar> set lines=999 > columns=999<CR> >> (each mapping on a single line) >> >> >> Best regards, >> Tony. > > Vim can use only fixed width fonts. Some fonts appears to be fixed-width, > but Vim cannot recognize it. > > Usually, fonts such as Courier_New does NOT look very well for unicode, > since the height/width ratio of the alphabet characters in it is no way > near 2:1. And the CJK characters in such font would be distorted or > streched. in some cases the Font can be too small or too thin to read. [...]
Unicode is not limited to CJK. In fact, Courier_New has no CJK ideographic glyphs, but it works very well, as I said, when mixing Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic script within a single document, which is only possible with Unicode. As I already mentioned, on Windows I use Courier_New for Russian and Arabic, and MingLiU for Chinese. For Latin-only editing sessions I use Lucida_Console. Best regards, Tony.
