[HN Gopher] A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting
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A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting
Author : LorenDB
Score : 35 points
Date : 2025-12-27 18:01 UTC (5 days ago)
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| punkpeye wrote:
| Fascinating
| gwern wrote:
| Note: this is different from https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-
| with-built-in-syntax-hig...
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently
| resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
| ptspts wrote:
| As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax
| highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
| fph wrote:
| I suppose this gets useful in applications where you can change
| the font, but not add syntax highlighting. Besides being a neat
| trick, of course.
| colechristensen wrote:
| >As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the
| syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for
| me.
|
| Then it's not for you. This comment does not add anything to
| the conversation and comments like these are better left
| unwritten.
| magicalhippo wrote:
| From what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this
| is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters
| based on adjacent letters to improve legibility.
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| edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail.
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| [1]: https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-
| contextual...
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| [2]: https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-
| hig...
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