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Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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If anyone uses narrower fonts so they can see more on a single screen, here's exactly what you need: http://dotsies.org — It's a mysterious dot font that is not braille. Have fun (spoiler: I didn't succeed to use it).

Wow, thanks for sharing!

Didn't expect such enthusiasm. Out of curiosity: Are you trying to learn it?

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Another reason to use tabs...

Every time you press tab and your code editor actually inserts a tab, we are 1 step closer to the outcome from Terminator.

What where the terminator is killed and everything turns out ok?

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Could you post your font files? I am unable to run this make command as it is broken in the latest build. Thanks so much!

I went through the build process — fascinating. Repo with the customized output files: https://github.com/kabootit/Iosevka Also some instructions for getting it going in VS Code. Never been a fan of narrow fonts but I'm sold on this one.

Thanks so much!

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Wow, thanks for sharing!

Didn't expect such enthusiasm. Out of curiosity: Are you trying to learn it?

I will most likely create my own at some point. In the previous discussion there were some interesting suggestions for improvements.

eg. http://esploded.s3.amazonaws.com/anon_data/2012/e5YO-dotsie3...

In terms of creating a space-saving reading system, I think a better place to start would be with the writing system itself. Dotsies squishes letters but does not remove them.

I propose a system where each word is reduced to its minimal representation, eg. where letters are removed until the smallest unique form is found (giving more common words shorter forms).

Once I have such a mapping developed (for both reading and accelerated writing) I will see if something like dotsies still makes sense.

In any case I will not use squares: they make my eyes sad. Maybe circles :)

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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If anyone uses narrower fonts so they can see more on a single screen, here's exactly what you need: http://dotsies.org — It's a mysterious dot font that is not braille. Have fun (spoiler: I didn't succeed to use it).

That is cool. I wish it wasn't dependent on the vertical alignment so much (e.g. if you have a single character, you can't tell an 'a' from a 'b' from a 'c' -- heck if you have a 'ab' that could also be a 'bc' or a 'cd'). Maybe it matters less in practice than I think.

In the previous discussion[0] on Dotsies, someone posted a modified version which tries to address this issue, as well as a few others:

"dotsies 3" http://esploded.s3.amazonaws.com/anon_data/2012/e5YO-dotsie3...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3601687

Re: Iosevka – A Typeface for Code, from Code

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Every time you press tab and your code editor actually inserts a tab, we are 1 step closer to the outcome from Terminator.

What where the terminator is killed and everything turns out ok?

Unless the machines figure out how to subvert time itself which is what happens, all because of carelessness on the part of developers and their insistence on tabs.
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