Fonts and Unicode conformance (was Re: Use of tag ,,,)

[Mark E. Shoulson]

Yes, there are not a few fonts out there that do this, along with 
various "programming ligatures."  I've committed worse atrocities as 
well, all the while keeping fonts ostensibly "monospaced." There was the 
time I developed a bunch of monospace blackletter(!) fonts for use in 
terminals (modifying regular fraktur fonts or the few existing monospace 
frakturs I found), with those ridiculous ligatures fraktur seems like 
for "ch" and "ck" and stuff, that look way too smooshed together and too 
much spacing around them, and ligatures for "mm" which always looks 
cramped, and r-rotunda contextual alternates...

Anyway, bottom line is, there's lots of fonts out there doing all kinds 
of creative ligaturing.  The assorted "code fonts" with ligatures for 
multi-character operations are examples (Fira, Cascadia, Iosevka, Nerd 
Fonts, etc.  Pragmata Pro is probably the grand-daddy of them all, with 
ligatures essentially for *styling* of words like "BUG" and "TODO")

~mark

On 5/9/24 00:26, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>
>> I regularly (amuse myself and) make fonts render "www" as a ligature,
>> etc.
> Microsoft’s Cascadia Code does this sort of thing on the regular, which to me is a great reason to use Cascadia Mono instead:
>
> https://github.com/microsoft/cascadia-code?tab=readme-ov-file#font-features
>
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> Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org
>