#LIGATURES FONTFORGE INSTALL#
#LIGATURES FONTFORGE CODE#

It should be noted here that if you are not using anchors and lookup tables to position diacritic marks, then, if the glyph of a particular diacritic mark is not present in your font, FontForge will instead use a similar spacing character in place.

For much greater control of diacritic placement, FontForge can place diacritic marks based on the position of user-created anchor points.

FontForge contains rudimentary information on where to place diacritic marks, so can automatically build most accented characters.

Lowercase ‘o with double acute’ (unicode u+0151).Ĭreated in a font by combining the lowercase ‘o’ glyph (unicode u+006f) and the ‘combining double acute accent’ glyph (unicode u+030b).įontForge can automatically create accented characters in two main ways. Lowercase ‘c with cedilla’ (unicode u+00e7).Ĭreated in a font by combining the lowercase ‘c’ glyph (unicode u+0063) and the ‘combining cedilla’ glyph (unicode u+0327). Lowercase ‘a with ogonek’ (unicode u+0105).Ĭreated in a font by combining the lowercase ‘a’ glyph (unicode u+0061) and the ‘combining ogonek’ glyph (unicode u+0328). Lowercase ‘a with circumflex’ (unicode u+00e2).Ĭreated in a font by combining the lowercase ‘a’ glyph (unicode u+0061) and the ‘combining circumflex accent’ glyph (unicode u+0302). Lowercase ‘a with grave’ (unicode u+00e0).Ĭreated in a font by combining the lowercase ‘a’ glyph (unicode u+0061) and the ‘combining grave accent’ glyph (unicode u+0300). Diacritical marks may appear above or below a letter, within it, or between two letters. Some diacritical marks (such as the ‘acute’ and ‘grave’) are often called accents. ContributionsĬontributions always welcome! Please submit a Pull Request, or create an Issue if you have an idea for a feature/enhancement (or bug).A diacritic is a mark added to, or combining with, a letter, often used to change the sound value of the letter to which the mark is added. ToxicFrog has made a large number of contributions. Navid Rojiani made a few changes to generalize the script so that it works for any font. This script was originally written by IlyaSkriblovsky for adding ligatures to DejaVuSans Mono ( dv-code-font). Ligatures.py supports some additional command line options to (e.g.) change which font ligatures are copied from or enable copying of individual character glyphs run fontforge -lang=py ligaturize.py -help to list them. You can also use -prefix instead, in which case the original name will be preserved and whatever you put in -prefix will be prepended to it.

The font weight will be inherited from the original file the font name will be replaced with whatever you specified in -output-name. Which will produce fonts/output/LigaturizedCousine-Regular.ttf. $ fontforge -lang py -script ligaturize.py fonts/Cousine-Regular.ttf Run the script: $ fontforge -lang py -script ligaturize.py path/to/input/font.ttfĮ.g. Move/copy the font you want to ligaturize into fonts/ (or somewhere else convenient).Įdit ligatures.py to disable any ligatures you don't want. The output fonts will be renamed with the prefix 'Liga'.Retrieve the ligaturized fonts from fonts/output/.It supports globbing, so if (e.g.) you want to ligaturize all the different weights of FooFont you can add 'FooFont*' to the list. Edit build.py to add your new font(s) to the prefixed_fonts list.

#LIGATURES FONTFORGE CODE#

Edit ligatures.py to disable any ligatures you don't want, and/or enable any (non-ligature) characters you want from Fira Code in addition to the ligatures.Use automatic mode to easily convert 1 or more font(s).

#LIGATURES FONTFORGE INSTALL#

For macOS, they are available via brew ( brew install fontforge). For OpenSUSE and NixOS, they are included in the fontforge package. For Debian/Ubuntu they are available in python-fontforge package. Script: This script requires FontForge python bindings. Using the Fonts: See the FiraCode README for a list of supported editors. This Repo: You'll need the repo and its submodules, so git clone with -recurse-submodules. Here's a couple examples of the fonts generated: SF Mono & Menlo with ligatures (note the != and ->): Pre-ligaturized versions are available under releases. This repo contains a Fontforge python script that you can use to add the Fira Code ligatures to any font, as well as submodules for some popular coding fonts and another script for ligaturizing all of them at once. (Note that the ligatures are scale-corrected, but otherwise copied as is from Fira Code it doesn't create new ligature graphics based on the font you're modifying.) This script copies the ligatures (glyphs and rendering information) from Fira Code into any other TrueType or OpenType font.

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