On 03/03/10 14:38, Dotan Cohen wrote:
[Tony Mechelynck wrote:]
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.
You can :set rightleft to reverse the whole split-window in gvim, or (on
Linux) you can run Vim in a true-bidi terminal such as mlterm. When
$TERM is "mlterm" at startup, Vim sets 'termbidi' which means that the
terminal, not Vim, is in charge of bidirectional text display.
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.
Not yet. Courier New has Arabic glyphs (including combining characters
for short vowels etc.) and it is good enough for my limited needs.
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'm not sure where they came from; from my Linux distribution I think,
but maybe in an optional "CJK fonts" package.
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?
I 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!
My pleasure.
Best regards,
Tony.
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