ligature.el VS Iosevka

Apparently "smart kerning" uses the ligatures mechanism. I use Mickey Peterson's ligature.el package for ligatures support. To get the smart kerning to work I added more ligatures by hand using this package. For example the website shows the effect when you type "Moi": the "o" will shift a bit away from the "M" when you type the "i". To get that to work I added a "Moi" ligature:

It sounds like you might want ligatures? I use ligature.el but it only works on emacs version 28+.

I'm using use-package as my package manager and the package ligature for the ligatures.

https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el will do it, but there are specific emacs version requirements and you have to enumerate all of the possible ligatures in your config. They have some examples of configuration for various popular programming ligature fonts.

Version 28 finally includes a necessary patch that has freed up ligatures. ligature.el seems to be the winning implementation.

There's a package called "ligature.el" that only works on Emacs V28+ https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el

> Is that the only way, or is there a way to disable ligatures but keep the rest of the font?

It's actually not that easy to use them with for example Emacs where you have to list every combination that you want to 'translate' to a ligature:

https://github.com/mickeynp/ligature.el

ligatures are when multiple characters appear to combine into a single character ej, => transforms to arrow. emacs version and font used must support this to use it. GitHub - mickeynp/ligature.el: Display typographical ligatures in Emacs

I don't really use any sort of symbol mode very often but when I do I much prefer using ligature.el with Fira Code.

> 80 should be fine for most single lines of good code in most languages.

C++ with even a modest template will flow over 80 without much effort.

I'm now using the condensed width font Iosevka font [1] with 160 chars as my max width in clang-format and indents at 1.

After a few days of using it, I'm converted. It was a bit odd looking at first, but I guess that's brain plasticity at work.

1. https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/releases

iosevka

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka is the best

Sadly I think that because of that flag it does not enable ligatures.

I was able to see ligatures and text healing in vim running in a patched st* though. I really like it thanks! The text healing only moves the line subtly as I type and when I cursor over there are no droppings from the widened 'm' for example. It's well thought-out for code.

If I could ask for a feature it would be to select some variants, like angular 0 with reverse slash or to leave the ! in the != ligature. To see what I mean: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/doc/stylistic-...

* https://st.suckless.org/patches/ligatures/

Iosevka is a fantastic open-source font that's fully customizable. I have replaced the fixed font on all of my devices and apps to a custom Iosevka build I made, and I don't think I'll ever turn back.

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

Misremembered about Iosevka: I requested support for a few other BQN characters after noticing it already had the double-struck ones (https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/issues/870). The other three were requests or contributions (drew 3270's 𝕏 myself!) explicitly in connection with BQN.

Nothing beats Iosevka (https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka) for me. It's narrow yet super readable, making great use of screen real estate. Lots of customization, ligatures, weights, and a nerd font patch for terminal.

> Monospace Iosevka contains various stylistic sets to change the shape of certain characters

That's what's on display at the linked URL (if anyone else was confused)

You can also select variants for specific characters: https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/blob/main/doc/character-...