I should have used my mail-list address,
so I excuse for sending this mail twice.
Hi Robert-in-search-of-fonts:
This thread reminds me of an earlier when I wonderer where my
favourite fonts had disappeared.
The "culprit" is the advanced x-fontset feature which GTK uses.
I am not an expert on this GUI nor the other GUIs so I will confine
this posting to a description of my practice after discovering what has
been mentioned in this thread:
1) I cannot find the old 8x16 font, nor -fn 12x24
2) I get 12x24 when i use :set guifont=Fixed\ 12
3) I can rebuild gvim without GTK and then use commandline -fn 12x24
and all the other "old" fonts.
./configure \
--disable-fontset \
--with-x \
--enable-gui=athena \
--disable-nls \
I must admit, that I prefer the GTK-GUI version and I have accepted
the missing 8x16 because
: set guifont=monospace\ 12
or 14 is pretty much ok. This font seems antialiased, which to me
and some others is a step backwards from the specially designed X11
fonts which use half pixels etc. I am not a specialist but I believe
half pixels are passé, they work only with CRT-screens so fx. 12x24
looks more coarse on an LCD.
Good luck with your search. Inform of your results and find a better
subject line, like "no-fontset in Vim7".
Regards/Donald Axel
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 14:20:10 +0200
Robert Cussons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> >
> > Are those two vims built with same GUI libraries ? I suspect
> > that they are build with different GUIs.
> > Can you send first 4 lines out :version output from each of two vims ?
> >
> > Yakov
> >
> > P.S. I remember that I had similar issue between one Qt-based
> > program and similar Xt-based program. I set same font for them two,
> > but they showed it rather differently. Maybe you'll want to rebuild
> > vim7 to use same GUI as your vim6.3. If you send first 4 lines from
> > both vims :version, we'll know which GUI they are both built with.
> >
>
> VIM - Vi IMproved 7.0 (2006 May 7, compiled Jul 31 2006 08:50:59)
> Included patches: 1-42
> Compiled by ...
> Huge version with X11-Motif GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
>
> VIM - Vi IMproved 6.3 (2004 June 7, compiled Jul 30 2005 12:36:01)
> Included patches: 1-71, 81-82
> Compiled by ...
> Big version with GTK2 GUI. Features included (+) or not (-):
>
>
> Seems you have hit the nail on the head Yakov, how would I rebuild Vim7
> using your script but changing the GUI is it using the --configure options?
>
> Many thanks for your help,
> Rob.
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