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Support OpenType features, like discretionary ligatures and stylistic sets
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Descripción
Many modern, well-made fonts include "OpenType features" that let you fine-tune typographic settings, like the appearance of 0 (slashed vs. dotted), or single/double story a/g. Like code ligatures, which MacVim already supports, these features can improve code legibility.
Is your feature request related something that is currently hard to do? Please describe.
Currently, it's not possible to enable OpenType features.
Also, not all fonts "provide" ligatures in the same way. Fira Code, for example, uses calt (contextual alternates), while Recursive uses the feature flag dlig. With Recursive, set macligatures doesn't turn on ligatures, suggesting that MacVim only supports calt. If OpenType features were supported, it would be possible to use all typography features a font provides, regardless of implementation.
Describe the solution you'd like
MacVim could provide an option, like macligatures, which takes a comma-separated list of OpenType features to enable. These features are four-letter flags, like dlig and ss01.
set macfontfeatures=dlig,ss01
Additional context
This may be a duplicate of #491, but I'm not sure of the difference between "language tags" as described there, and "OpenType features", which is how these settings are described in font documentation that I've seen.
- Examples of OpenType features:
https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive#opentype-features - Discussion of
caltvsdlig, concluding thatdligfits the OpenType spec better:
https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/issues/106
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Línea de trabajo
Comienza localizando la opción existente macligatures de MacVim y el punto de entrada de la configuración de fuentes. Revisa cómo deberían representarse los feature flags como dlig y ss01; se considerará completado cuando una configuración separada por comas habilite las características OpenType solicitadas, incluidas las características implementadas de forma diferente a calt.
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- Stack tecnológico
- macos, vim
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- desktop, tooling
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- Nueva funcionalidad
- Dificultad
- 4/5
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- 3-5 días
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- Estancado
- Claridad
- Bastante claro
- Aptitud para principiantes
- 35/100