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Does it? In monospaced fonts, you can use width to know how many characters are in a ligature.
by vivekseth 9y ago
Does it? In monospaced fonts, you can use width to know how many characters are in a ligature.
- rocky1138 9y agoMaybe I'm just not good at it. Maybe I don't want to have to think of one more thing. That's the point of monospaced fonts, after all.
- joemi 9y agoThe issue, at least for me, isn't that it makes it impossible to figure out how many characters a ligature is (since, as you noted, it doesn't), but that it adds some ambiguity, especially when taking a quick glance. Ambiguity can slow down parsing (in the brain) and potentially lead to errors (in the code) if I mistakenly think a ligature is a single character. For instance, in the examples from the article, the == and -> ligatures in particular look like something I might not always see as two characters.