[vim/vim] Set specific font for bold and italic text? (#8905)
dusanx
I am using vim in (kitty) terminal where I can set different font for normal, italic, bold and italic-bold text. This is important because (for instance) Cascadia Code has many weights as separate fonts:
Cascadia Code PL
Cascadia Code PL Bold
Cascadia Code PL Bold Italic
Cascadia Code PL ExtraLight
Cascadia Code PL ExtraLight Italic
Cascadia Code PL Italic
Cascadia Code PL Light
Cascadia Code PL Light Italic
Cascadia Code PL Regular
Cascadia Code PL SemiBold
Cascadia Code PL SemiBold Italic
Cascadia Code PL SemiLight
Cascadia Code PL SemiLight Italic
Since I prefer thinner font, setting 'Light' as normal font and 'Regular' as bold works well in terminal.
However, in gvim, setting:
set guifont=Cascadia\ Code\ PL\ Light\ 10.2
set guifontwide=Cascadia\ Code\ PL\ Light\ 10.2
produces 'Light' normal font, then for bold segments it falls to 'Bold' since I can't specify bold separately.
Question: Is it possible to specify bold/italic/bold-italic separately in gvim? If not possible please consider this as feature request.
Thanks!
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Christian Brabandt
I think you can set separate fonts for different highlighting groups. So you can specify an italic font for a highlighting group, that uses italic. However the help mentions this can cause redraw problems.
dusanx
That sounds interesting but I am using gruvbox theme which has a lot of groups using bold, Redefining all of them can be tricky and theme specific. I would rather use general bold/italic/bold-italic selector.
I guess redraw problems can happen when different fonts have different widths, so switching any of the programming fonts won't show that issue -- at least should not.
dusanx
There must be already point in code where gvim decides what 'other' font to use when bold or italic is requested. I'll dig some trough source code to see if I can force other font. Ideally this can end with PR but can take some time since I am not familiar with gvim code.
Of course any input/help is welcome.
Bram Moolenaar
The highlighting already supports using bold and italic. The implementation will try to find the right font to use with 'guifont'. To overrule that we could introduce 'guifontbold' and 'guifontitalic'. This then needs to be implemented for each platform. Font names are platform specific anyway.
Micah Lindstrom
See related request at https://stackoverflow.com/q/66141410/6047827.
I would like the addition of guifontbold and guifontitalic as well. That would let me use set guifont=Source_Code_Pro_Semibold:h9 in my vimrc to set my default font; I cannot do that currently as it breaks the bold syntax highlighting which does not realize there are bolder variants available. So instead I have to use set guifont=Source_Code_Pro:h9. It's a little light, but better than having no bolded syntax highlighting at all.
Even better would be if I could use a Variable Font (VF) like Source Code Variable. For example you can download the VF *.zip file at https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/releases. That lets just two font files supply the full range of weights in both italic and roman (aka upright) styles. The Source Code Pro Variable weight axis supports anything between 200 and 900, as shown with a slider on Adobe's website at https://fonts.adobe.com/fonts/source-code-variable.
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froggie
Any news on this at all?
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