On 14 January 2016 at 09:34, Stewart C. Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Giles: >> http://www.gilesorr.com/vim/vimjourney/ > > Thanks for the slides - sorry I coudln't make it out. > >> I added a section on "Programmer Fonts" and using TTF fonts in XTerm > > Neat - but the Powerline project doesn't explain why they need to patch > the fonts in the first place. Font design is much harder than it looks, > and exceptional care and skill is required.
I think that what they're doing is adding some characters that are used to display special symbols (ie. for git upstream, or a pretty arrow) on the Vim status bar. Don't think they touch the existing font at all. I have no idea if that addresses your concerns or makes them worse: I know nothing about font design. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
