[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Programming Font with Ligatures

[Ian Tuomi]

On 1 May 2014, at 22:33, Evan Laforge wrote:
> Just to verify, this only works in those few terminals that support
> ligatures in fixed-width fonts, right?

Correct. It seems OSX would give you ligatures "for free" with the 
included text rendering, but most terminals implement text in some other 
more complicated way.


> I tried on OSX with iTerm2 and
> no ligatures are rendered, just separate characters.  But it's on the
> "not supported" list so no surprise.  Anyone happen know how to get OS
> X font rendering to do it?  The iterm guys are very responsive to
> feature requests or patches.

I tried, see https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=2974 for 
more information.

-Ian