Ligatures have spaces about scientifica HOT 9 CLOSED

I personally dont use ligatures because of inconsistencies.

I will surely look into this.

Did you notice these spaces in creep as well?

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Creep has it without spaces:

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Alright, it looks like creep has inconsistent character bounding boxes, so it is able to join the characters forming a ligature, by extending them beyond the grid lines.

Here's an example:

Creep:

Scientifica:

I cannot extend the character in scientifica because it would break most linux terminals.

So, I have no solution to this issue as of now.

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Hmm, but why do some ligatures connect without an missing pixel, like the left arrow?

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Every character in scientifica is like this:

4px character + 1px space

Some characters fill the entire 5 pixels, thereby touching the character to its right.

A 5px character followed by a 4px char will appear to be joint, whereas a 4px char followed by another character will have 1px space in between, which is what you are seeing.

Now, it is possible to make this 4px char wider by adding another pixel, for the sake of ligatures, but I personally am not a fan of symbols like equals and minus joining up.

Maybe I could export a separate version with 'ligatures enabled', which are basically certain characters occupying all 5 pixels.

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Would it then maybe be possible to create a special symbol, for example like the powerline arrow, which is a 5px wide minus sign?

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Yeah sure. I can put them in the private use area block.

You could accordingly use them in the creep.vim plugin.

It should be up in the latest commit.

Edit:
U+E09E [  ] and U+E09F [  ] have been added as of this commit, for 5px wide equals sign and a 5px wide minus sign.

I'd recommend you refresh the font cache to see them.

fc-cache -fv

Restart Xorg if that does not work.

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Sorry for the long response time, i had to setup my system again.
The 5px wide minus sign works perfectly and the new arrow looks pretty nice too. But the equals sign is 1px too high:

Also thanks for working on this, even tho you don't like ligatures 😄

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Thanks for pointing it out!

It should be fixed in the latest commit.

I'm glad you like it!

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