Disable liga+calt option for fontbuilder about monoid

[larsenwork]

I think it's enough just to remove the liga + calt
Single substitution ones are only called through liga and calt (if you look in font.props you can see that the single substitution ones have no script/language specified)

[chase]

Right, gsub_lookups just lists all possible lookups. There isn't a real way to query it, so I have to chug through all of them to try and find gsub_ligature and gsub_contextchain to remove liga and calt sublookups.

[larsenwork]

Ok, wait a bit doing anything as I'll see if can use just calt and that might solve the issue.

[chase]

I think adding this as an option is a good idea either way, because I personally would prefer to see "<= over ≤" in my code simply due to trained recognition.

[larsenwork]

Yep, but no reason for doing so in the build scripts because if everything is contextual alternates then you'll have to actively enable "calt" in your editors for it to appear.

[larsenwork]

i think...

[chase]

Unfortunately, Linux users are stuck with xft which renders pretty much every font everywhere. Hardly anyone bypasses font rendering options, since font rendering is already a difficult problem handled by xft. Given that xft doesn't support disabling contextual alternates, this means that one can't simply disable contextual alternates or ligatures.

This commonly leads to Linux-specific forks for fonts that ligatures, like Monaco: https://gist.github.com/epegzz/1634235

[larsenwork]

Ah...I'm not a linux guy :)

[larsenwork]

I've disabled it in source until we get it sorted out :)

[chase]

I'll have this ready tomorrow and everything should be good to go before the 25th 👍

[larsenwork]

Perfect - not critical though so don't 😅

The whole concept is still quite experimental in terms of editor support.

[larsenwork]

does the disable thing work now?

[chase]

Nope, didn't implement that yet. Will get around to that next weekend.

[larsenwork]

No stress, just curious 😄

[glebd]

Just wanted to say -- excellent font, really shaping up to be the best programming font. Looking forward to having ligatures again -- Monoid was the only font with ligatures that worked in OS X Terminal and Xcode. Thank you for your work, truly well done.

[larsenwork]

@glebd cheers, ligatures will reappear for sure - any ideas/suggestions about ligatures are much welcomed in #25 👍