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Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code (monaspace.githubnext.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming

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[–] autokludge 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's basically a different type of ligature - it is standard to OTF fonts, but requires ligature support in your editor/terminal. Just need to enable ligatures and/or enable specific ligature sets. See https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace#editors or maybe https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/font-shaping.html for the general procedure in a supporting terminal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to disable it but keep ligatures?

[–] autokludge 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace#editors :

If you want coding ligatures but do not want texture healing, you can omit the calt setting:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you!