A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting 5 days ago (rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com) 5 comments LorenDB Reply Add to library magicalhippo 5 minutes 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... gwern 2 hours ago Note: this is different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art. punkpeye 3 hours ago Fascinating ptspts 1 hour ago As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
magicalhippo 5 minutes 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...
gwern 2 hours ago Note: this is different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
ptspts 1 hour ago As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
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...
Note: this is different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
Fascinating
As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.