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Ordinary glyphs and ligatures (if any) are generally thought to be designed together. Turning ligatures off is not a proper solution but a workaround---you woul
by lifthrasiir 3y ago
Ordinary glyphs and ligatures (if any) are generally thought to be designed together. Turning ligatures off is not a proper solution but a workaround---you would be using something different from what was originally designed [1]. And sufficiently many people think most uses of ligatures in programming fonts are indeed bad, therefore those fonts are also bad, thus endless complaints.
[1] And if ligatures are designed independently from ordinary glyphs, there is no reason to make them default.
- mort96 3y agoIt's a monospace font. Ligatures aren't used to make sequences like 'fi' look stupid, they're used to make sequences often used for mathematical operations look like those mathematical symbols. Turning off ligatures should be completely fine in this case.
- tracker1 3y agoI haven't experienced an application that didn't require me to explicitly turn them on.