tonsky / tonsky/FiraCode

Glyph request: ⋮, ⋯, ⋱

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Description

Hi!

FiraCode has support for dots: … (U2026). However, it lacks support for center dots ⋯ (U22EF), vertical dots ⋮ (U22EE), and diagonal dots ⋱ (U22F1). Those are very important when displaying large matrices in terminal:

        25×5 DataFrame
         Row │ x1        x2        x3        x ⋯
             │ Int64     Int64     Int64     I ⋯
        ─────┼──────────────────────────────────
           1 │ 10000001  10000026  10000051  1 ⋯
          ⋮  │    ⋮         ⋮         ⋮        ⋱
          25 │ 10000025  10000050  10000075  1
                   2 columns and 23 rows omitted"""

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Research direction

Start by inspecting the FiraCode font source and its build workflow to find how existing glyphs such as … are defined. Add support for ⋯ (U22EF), ⋮ (U22EE), and ⋱ (U22F1), then verify that the characters render correctly in the terminal matrix example.

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Assessment

Domain
design
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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