N.B. This is a fork of the Source Code Pro repository
Hasklig – Ligatures for code
Programming languages are limited to relatively few characters. As a result, combined character operators surfaced quite early, such as the widely used arrow (->), comprised of a hyphen and greater sign. It looks like an arrow if you know the analogy and squint a bit.
Composite glyphs are problematic in languages such as Haskell which utilize these complicated operators (=> -< >>= etc.) extensively. The readability of such complex code improves with pretty printing. Academic articles featuring Haskell code often use lhs2tex to achieve an appealing rendering, but it is of no use when programming.
Some Haskellers have resorted to Unicode symbols (⇒, ← etc.), which are valid in the ghc. However they are one-character-wide and therefore eye-strainingly small. Furthermore, when displayed as substitutes to the underlying multi-character representation, as [vim2hs] (https://github.com/dag/vim2hs) does, the characters go out of alignment.
Hasklig solves the problem the way typographers have always solved ill-fitting characters which co-occur often: ligatures. The underlying code stays the same — only the representation changes.
Not only can multi-character glyphs be rendered more vividly, other problematic things in monospaced fonts, such as spacing can be corrected.
Download Hasklig Font Family v1.1
Hasklig
Source Code Pro
Release notes
- v1.1
- New ligatures
->>, :::, >=>, <=<, <=>, <->
- Switched to newer version of calt code by Nikita Prokopov. It "doesn’t apply ligatures to long sequences of chars, e.g. !!!!, >>>>, etc"
- Fixed
++ and +++ line inconsistency in heavy italic weights
- v1.0
- Updates to the latest version of SCP
- Hasklig moves to a ligature substitution mechanism borrowed from the excellent Fira Code by Nikita Prokopov
- v0.9: This is a major update so YMMV. Please report any issues.
- Converted to UFO format and updated base fonts to benefit from work done on Source Code Pro:
- Italics!
- Greek & Cyrillic script support
- Better powerline symbols
- Much, much more
- Added tags that enable support for some IntelliJ IDEA Builds
- v0.4: New ligatures:
<* <*> <+> <$> *** <, > !! , === ==>, Powerline symbol support
- v0.3: New ligatures:
<<< >>> <> and +++
- v0.2: Lengthened
== and /= to match other equals signs
- v0.1: Ligatures
<- -> => >> << >>= =<< .. ... :: -< >- -<< >>- ++ /= and ==
Currently implemented symbols
<* <*> <+> <$> *** <, , > <, > !! , === ==> <<< >>> <> +++ <- -> => >> << >>= =<< .. ... :: -< >- -<< >>- ++ /= ==
Editor Support
This list is compiled based on reports on the current state of support for code editors and terminals. This list
Supported editors
No support
- Emacs
- gVim (output corrupted. A patch exists, but it has not been incorporated into mainstream gVim.)
- KDevelop 4
- Notepad++
- Xamarin Studio/Monodevelop
Building the fonts from source
Requirements
To build the binary font files from source, you need to have installed the
Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO). The AFDKO
tools are widely used for font development today, and are part of most font
editor applications.
Some SVG glyphs are inserted into the fonts using Python FontTools.
Building font instances from masters
This repository only includes so-called master weights of the fonts (effectively extralight and black).
The shapes of the weights in between these extremities are calculated by makeInstancesUFO supplied with .designspace files.
For convenience, the shell script buildInstances is provided, which executes makeInstancesUFO, calculating all the italic and regular font weight shapes.
$ ./buildInstances.sh
Building one font
The key to building OTF or TTF fonts is makeotf, which is part of the AFDKO toolset.
Information and usage instructions can be found by executing makeotf -h.
In this repository, all necessary files are in place for building the OTF and TTF fonts.
For example, build a binary OTF font for the Regular style like this:
$ cd Roman/Regular/
$ makeotf -r
Building all fonts
For convenience, a shell script named build is provided in the root directory.
It builds all OTFs and TTFs, and can be executed by typing:
$ ./build.sh
or this on Windows:
> build.cmd
Credits
Original idea, design and implementation of code ligatures by Ian Tuomi 2014-2015.
This typeface extends Source Code Pro with ligatures.
