A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com 42 points by LorenDB 6 days ago
gwern a day ago Note: this is different from https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
magicalhippo 19 hours ago From what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters based on adjacent letters to improve legibility.edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail.[1]: https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual...[2]: https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...
ptspts 21 hours ago As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me. fph 19 hours ago I suppose this gets useful in applications where you can change the font, but not add syntax highlighting. Besides being a neat trick, of course. colechristensen 19 hours ago >As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.Then it's not for you. This comment does not add anything to the conversation and comments like these are better left unwritten.
fph 19 hours ago I suppose this gets useful in applications where you can change the font, but not add syntax highlighting. Besides being a neat trick, of course.
colechristensen 19 hours ago >As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.Then it's not for you. This comment does not add anything to the conversation and comments like these are better left unwritten.
Note: this is different from https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
From what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters based on adjacent letters to improve legibility.
edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail.
[1]: https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual...
[2]: https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...
Fascinating
As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
I suppose this gets useful in applications where you can change the font, but not add syntax highlighting. Besides being a neat trick, of course.
>As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
Then it's not for you. This comment does not add anything to the conversation and comments like these are better left unwritten.