> Which font is best for you will depend on which fonts are insalled on your > computer, on which language (English? French? Turkish? Russian? Greek? > Hebrew? Arabic? Chinese? Japanese? North Korean?)
I use mostly Latin and Hebrew scripts, but I was specifically looking for Latin fonts. Hebrew does not work well in and VI variant, being right-to-left in nature. > most of your editfiles are > in, and ultimately on your taste, so no answer can be absolute here: /de > gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum/ (which is Latin for "one > shouldn't argue over tastes and colours"), a choice of font is necessarily > subjective. > We say that one does not argue over tastes and smells! But asking a knowledgeable group's experience on a topic that does have objective criteria seems to be fair game! > This said, for Latin-alphabet languages I use Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, > which is similar but IMHO slightly better-looking than Dejavu Sans Mono; > like DejaVu, it has clearly different glyphs for the digit 0 (zero) and the > letter O (as in Oscar), for the digit 1 (one), the capital letter I (as in > India) and the small letter l (lowercase L as in Lima), etc. Thanks. > For Arabic I > use Courier New (monospaced fonts don't look nice in Arabic, so I have to > settle for one with clearly recognizable glyphs even if it is ugly) Have you tried Tahoma? I know that it is a favourite around here as it looks good in both Arabic and Latin letters. > and for > CJK scripts maybe some font like FZFangSong or FZKaiTi; for multilingual > files (such as http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/index.htm ) I've never used those! > I of > course use a font corresponding to the part of the file that I'm currently > editing. How can one configure different fonts for different languages / unicode blocks? Or do you do it manually? > These, however, are my choices, they may or may not be right for > you. > Of course, that is why I solicited advice! > If you have a gvim version which allows selecting a font by means of a menu, > including but not limited to gvim for Windows and gvim with GTK2 GUI, try > > :set gfn=* > > to see all installed fonts which gvim will accept to set. If you see one > that looks nice, try it on several of your files before you decide to write > the setting into your vimrc or gvimrc, because it may look less nice in > "real" conditions than on the example shown in the font chooser. If you > don't see any font which looks better than the one you're already using, you > can still cancel the dialog by hitting Esc or clicking Cancel. > > See also http://vim.wikia.org/wiki/Setting_the_font_in_the_GUI > Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
