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Ligature request: ::= #539

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GeertBosch opened this issue Jan 15, 2018 · 2 comments
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Ligature request: ::= #539

GeertBosch opened this issue Jan 15, 2018 · 2 comments

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@GeertBosch
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GeertBosch commented Jan 15, 2018

#BNF notation is often used to indicate syntax descriptions:

<expr> ::= <term>|<expr><addop><term>

We have a nice ligatures for :=, but ::= really is inconsistent in comparison, as the :: ligature visually breaks up ::= into :: and = parts. They should really be like the := ligature, but with the left two dots repeated to form a square, and probably the equals sign part extended a bit more.

example of := vs ::=

This would look better something like:
screen shot 2018-01-15 at 11 39 37 am

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tonsky commented Jan 15, 2018

will do, thanks!

@GeertBosch
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Thanks for the super quick response! I've really enjoyed using Fira Code so far with a variety of different languages.

@tonsky tonsky closed this as completed in 0bbc641 Feb 27, 2018
robfrawley pushed a commit to robfrawley/fonts-firacode that referenced this issue Jul 15, 2018
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