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Re:Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support by fbnlsr on Friday October 06, 2017 @03:02AM (#15414947)
I've spent the last six months trying out new fonts (m0n0, hack, monoid, hasklig, fira code, mononoki, fixedsys excelsior, iosevka, source code pro, input...)

Nothing cuts it, there's always that tiny thing that bothers me, and I'm back with Ubuntu Mono.

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Re:Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support by joshschreuder on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:33AM (#15415493)
Yeah it's great isn't it? I've tried heaps of times over the last few years to switch and haven't found a font I like better than Ubuntu Mono.
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Re:Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support by IgorPartola on Friday October 06, 2017 @09:02AM (#15416441)
OT question: a lot of fonts come in all possible formats. If I am just installing them on my macOS box, does it matter which format I install? Is there a reason to prefer say .woff2 over .ttf? Or are they functionally equivalent?
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Re:Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support by pitaj on Friday October 06, 2017 @09:18AM (#15416527)
woff and woff2 are web font standards. I don't think they're supported by most operating systems.
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Re:Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support by IgorPartola on Friday October 06, 2017 @09:33AM (#15416622)
Well fair enough, but what about TTF vs OTF?
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Re:Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support by robin_reala on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:10AM (#15416887)
OpenType (otf) is more modern than TrueType (ttf) and supports more functionality and features within the font.
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Re:Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support by IgorPartola on Friday October 06, 2017 @10:32AM (#15417048)
So if installing a font locally, OTF is the way to go if it's available?
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Re:Sublime Text 3 now has font ligature support by robin_reala on Friday October 06, 2017 @11:49AM (#15417728)
Yep!
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