Firacode: rendering of `!!!!!!`

[xcambar]

Rendering !!!!!! (6 exclamation marks with no space) renders as follows:

There's a clear impression of two groups of 3 spaces, when it's one group of 6.

Note that this effect works for any group of exclamation marks > 3 characters.

[MadcapJake]

There's only a ligature for three exclamation marks.

[tonsky]

i'll address that in next version

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:52 PM Jake Russo [email protected] wrote:

There's only a ligature for three exclamation marks.

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[federicobond]

This group by 3 behavior is also present in dashes.

The case of equals signs, commonly used to underline Markdown headings is actually worse, because 3 consecutive equals turn into a symbol with 3 horizontal lines instead of two.

[curio77]

Long sequences of slashes (“///////////////////…”, used by some as visual delimiters in source code) also get rendered as groups of three, not sure if anything can be done about this?

[tonsky]

Yes, I can block sequences longer than 3 slashes or exclamations marks from
forming a ligature altogether. I’m planning this for the next version.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 10:01 AM curio77 [email protected] wrote:

Long sequences of slashes (“///////////////////…”, used by some as visual
delimiters in source code) also get rendered as groups of three, not sure
if anything can be done about this?

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[curio77]

That's great! And I very much enjoy working with Fira Code within both Atom and Android Studio/IntelliJ IDEA, so many thanks for it! :-)

[stephencelis]

Please do the same for ...! A lot of test runners use dots to denote passing test cases.

[engelfrost]

I think this behavior is wanted for all sequences of identical characters.

[Jessidhia]

Indeed. Sequences of w are another fun case:

Though one might question my decision of using Fira Code as an IRC font.