Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by indentit » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 12:12 AM UTC

Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support
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Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by gmemstr » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 12:27 AM UTC

Can confirm Fira Code works fine, although the update has broken the interface a little bit, at least for me.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by indentit » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 1:32 AM UTC

gmemstr wrote: post #2

Can confirm Fira Code works fine, although the update has broken the interface a little bit, at least for me.

make sure you report it on the forum post with details like OS, screen resolution and theme, and it might get a quick fix - I've seen it happen before for other dev build bugs :)

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by gmemstr » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 3:28 AM UTC

indentit wrote: post #3

gmemstr wrote: post #2

Can confirm Fira Code works fine, although the update has broken the interface a little bit, at least for me.

make sure you report it on the forum post with details like OS, screen resolution and theme, and it might get a quick fix - I've seen it happen before for other dev build bugs :)

Came home and checked for updates - they have fixed the issue (that was quick!).

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by strmpnk » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 3:37 AM UTC

It seems to work but it does render certain ligatures incorrectly on OS X for me. For example, ligature and <- is rendered as </. Since it's a dev build, I'm sure it will take some ironing out before it hits the stable version but this is really promising!

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by hbhakhra » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 3:57 AM UTC

Tangent: Any good resources to read up on typography? I feel like of all design related issues thats the one I have zero knowledge or insight on.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by badminton1 » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 4:02 AM UTC

I think Sublime Text is very good but has fallen behind in terms of version control. I think Atom and VS Code are winning the war right now. Especially because the latter are free.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by TheCoreh » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 4:03 AM UTC

strmpnk wrote: post #5

It seems to work but it does render certain ligatures incorrectly on OS X for me. For example, ligature and <- is rendered as </. Since it's a dev build, I'm sure it will take some ironing out before it hits the stable version but this is really promising!

Could it be that the syntax highlighter is splitting up < and * as separate tokens?

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by itafroma » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 4:05 AM UTC

hbhakhra wrote: post #6

Tangent: Any good resources to read up on typography? I feel like of all design related issues thats the one I have zero knowledge or insight on.

I would highly recommend James Felici's The Complete Manual of Typography. Goes through all the core concepts of typography and why they matter, and provides a number of guidelines.

Re: Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support

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Post by skytreader » Fri, Oct 06, 2017, 4:11 AM UTC

Honest question: Why would you want ligatures in plaintext? Especially in code, wouldn't that be weird as some people tend to manually align their code? Like,

  modular_raft = 10
  spam         = 20

The "ft" in modular_raft should convert to a ligature so (I assume) it will then take one character, instead of two. Then developers viewing that source would have different alignments, depending on whether they use Sublime 3 or not.

(EDIT: Formatting.)