microsoft / microsoft/terminal

Parse/understand weight suffixes in font names

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Description

From #9375
- C. In the future, we'll perhaps try to parse weight suffixes out of the specified font name and transform them into weight values or something more complicated. Backlog item.

_Originally posted by @miniksa in https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/9375#issuecomment-811522579_

EDIT: See #10777 for some progress here that never ended up getting cleaned up and finished

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Research direction

Read #9375 for the original context and #10777 for the earlier progress that was not finished. Determine the intended handling of weight suffixes in font names and consider the existing discussion before defining completion as converting supported suffixes into weight values or the agreed equivalent behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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