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2503 :: programming ligatures

• Krux02 (orginal) [2016-08-30T17:47:20+02:00] view original

  I would just like push a bit of attention to the programming font FiraCode. It is a font that intends to make sourcecode more readable by visualizing common operators such as != and <= with symbols that look more like the math symbols ≠ and ≤, but without destroying the vertical alignment of characters. It like to mention it, because it just got support for Nim ligatures :D

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• Stefan_Salewski (orginal) [2016-08-30T19:01:18+02:00] view original

  That is interesting. Seems that GTK3 supports ligatures, so I will test it with my editor. (General I would prefer a proportional font, I am using the "Input" proportional fonts currently, they are designed for source code display.) I still wonder how ligatures can work in source code -- how is the cursor positioned, how can selecting text ranges work? Have to investigate.

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• OderWat (orginal) [2016-08-30T19:25:12+02:00] view original

  Yeah. I experimented with different fonts in the past but most where just not for me. This one seems to be really good in both appearance (1/l/I/O/0) and functionality (ligatures). Thank you for the headsup!

  EDIT: WOW it also supports Powerline (VIM)! And works besides Visual Studio Code (which I use where I don't use IDEA Tools) also pretty well in ITerm2 (v3.0.8).

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• dom96 (orginal) [2016-08-31T08:58:46+02:00] view original

  Awesome. It's really nice to see some Nim love in this font :D

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• endragor (orginal) [2016-08-31T09:09:45+02:00] view original

  Yeah, I've been using this font since VSCode Nim plugin was created. The best font I've seen so far for Nim and as a programming font in general.

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• _tulayang (orginal) [2016-08-31T09:42:13+02:00] view original

  So beautiful!

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• OderWat (orginal) [2016-08-31T17:27:11+02:00] view original

  I am using the Stylish Chrome-Extension to make tabs on Github appear with two spaces.

  I just tried and added "Fira Code" as font for code blocks and that seems to work very nicely.

  
  .blob-code,
  .line-data {
    -moz-tab-size: 2 !important;
    -webkit-tab-size: 2 !important;
    -o-tab-size: 2 !important;
    tab-size: 2 !important;
  }
  
  .blob-code-inner {
    font-family: "Fira Code" !important
  }
  Run

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