Is there any way to use font features in Emacs?
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ObsidianChickenz · 2022-05-06 22:17

I'm trying to set up Emacs with Fira Code, but I use several alternate
characters for the font. Is there any way to force Emacs to use these
alternate characters?

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vasjpan02 · 2022-05-06 23:34

Dunno why zelm android emacs is stuck on small font

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konrad1977 · 2022-05-07 06:39

I think this might be what you're looking for.
[https://github.com/jming422/fira-code-
mode](https://github.com/jming422/fira-code-mode)

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eli-zaretskii · 2022-05-07 08:01

What do you mean by "alternate characters" in this context?

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alternateved · 2022-05-07 08:32

I think author has this in mind:
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylistic-sets

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eli-zaretskii · 2022-05-07 13:28

If that's the intent, then it wasn't yet implemented in Emacs.  It is
mentioned as a desired feature in our `etc/TODO`.

Patches welcome.

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ObsidianChickenz · 2022-05-07 13:44

Stylistic sets were indeed what I had in mind. Glad to know it's on
the to-do list!

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lastnamebird · 2022-05-07 21:24

a bit of a workaround that I have been using I found on this [blog
post](https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/opentype-font-exploration/).
Essentially, they use this tool https://github.com/twardoch/fonttools-
opentype-feature-freezer to enable font variants by default. Though
I'm not certain if it works with ligatures.