On 14 January 2016 at 09:34, Stewart C. Russell <scruss@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Giles:
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/ gilesorr@gmail.com