Re:Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
by sophrosyne42 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:37AM
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You can edit a font and remove the ligatures you dislike using fontforge [1].
Re:Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
by maratc on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:46AM
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> I don't like all of them
I hate all of them with a passion, because they look like a glyph (i.e. "something you can erase with a single backspace") but aren't. This confuses me first, and annoys me second. "Just because we could" doesn't mean that we should.
Imagine having to use Backspace twice to erase e.g. Ö or Ñ, or being able to place your cursor halfway inside Æ.
Re:Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
by eps on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:08AM
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Amen. Very well put.
Re:Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
by antiframe on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:27PM
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It's pretty easy. You can opt into any ligature you like across every mode, and then add extra ones for each programming mode or other mode. For example:
(use-package ligature
:ensure t
:config
;; Enable specific ligatures globally across all modes:
(ligature-set-ligatures 't '("==" "===" "!=" "->" "-->" "=>" "=="))
;; Enable individual ligatures only for specific programming modes:
(ligature-set-ligatures '(python-mode rust-mode c-mode)
'("||" "&&" "::" "->" "=>" "!="))
;; Enable ligatures only for HTML / XML:
(ligature-set-ligatures '(html-mode nxml-mode web-mode)
'("<!--" "-->" "</" "/>"))
;; Enable global ligature mode
(global-ligature-mode t))
I like that, I usually have ligatures turned off, because I don't like all of them, especially the ones for == or ===. (Otoh I do like != ligatures...) but I do like the arrows.
This is probably were somebody tells me how easy it is to configure singular ligatures on a font and I'll facepalm in embarrassment for never finding out.