Comment on Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code

qwertyasdef@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• autokludge@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s basically a different type of ligature - it is standard to OTF fonts, but requires ligature support in your editor/terminal. Just need to enable ligatures and/or enable specific ligature sets. See github.com/githubnext/monaspace#editors or maybe wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/font-shaping.html for the general procedure in a supporting terminal.

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  • jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is there a way to disable it but keep ligatures?

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    • autokludge@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      From github.com/githubnext/monaspace#editors :

      If you want coding ligatures but do not want texture healing, you can omit the calt setting:

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      • jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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• Die4Ever@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Contextual alternates are normally used for certain scripts, like Arabic, where the shape of each glyph depends on the surrounding glyphs. And they are also used for cursive handwriting fonts where the stroke of the “pen” might have different connection points across letters. Texture healing is a novel application of this technology to code.

  basically fonts were already capable of using alternate versions of characters based on their nearby characters, so they used that for these fonts to allow for seemingly-dynamic sizing/spacing

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• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s an OpenType standard feature but the font rendering system has to support it and the app has to enable it. The page has a link to instructions for enabling it in VS Code but I have no idea about support status on different OS and desktop environments. I could see it working on webview on Android fwiw, I’m guessing it’s either well supported in general or at least by browsers.

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  • admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Here is the comprehensive editor compatibility list for Fira Code. Should be the same.

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  • aloso@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It is well supported in all browsers and operating systems. At least VS Code and IntelliJ support it, and even some terminals.

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