I realize there seem to be some hiccoughs, but I added this to the toolmap anyway. Blessings
Dave On Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 9:36:30 PM UTC-5, Scott Sauyet wrote: > > There is a new plugin hosted at > http://scott.sauyet.com/tiddlywiki/plugins/FiraCode.html. > > It is used to embed the Fira Code font [1] in a TW5. Fira Code has a > large number of ligatures that help turn ugly sequences of symbols such as > `<=` into more elegant-looking symbols like ` ≤` -- without altering your > actual text. Thanks are due to Mat for helping me through some final > issues [2]. > > I find this font extremely helpful in documenting code. I wrote it to > scratch my own itch, but I think others may find it useful. > > I am hoping for feedback. Anything is welcome, but I do specifically want > to know a few things: > > - Is this a reasonably well-written plugin? Did I break any important > rules? > > - Is hosting the plugin on a web page like this a reasonable means of > distributing it? Or is the norm to create a GitHub repo? > > - Is the text of the README and the USAGE sections appropriate? I'm > assuming a reader who has some experience with TW, but not necessarily one > who is an expert. Is that the correct -- or at least the conventional -- > way to write these? > > - Should I slim it down? The four font-weights included bring this > plugin up to 1 MiB. Should I remove everything but 400 and 700 weights, > cutting it in half? (Anyone know anything about font-weight support in > browsers and/or community usage?) Or should I offer a "full" and a "light" > version of this? > > Thanks for any feedback you can share, > > -- Scott > > [1]: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode > [2]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/u8YQ0oQ59is > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/bec05bd7-5606-4fc6-a21a-07d775739384%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
