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PragmataPro font is designed to help pros to work better
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Stylistic sets are hard to use in IDEs or terminals #246

Closed sgigou closed 1 year ago

sgigou commented 2 years ago

You made awesome stylistic sets for Pragmata Pro – ss06 and ss09 are beautiful – but sadly, they are almost unusable in a development environment. Stylistic sets are hard to activate, and even more to activate them in some contexts only – for example, using the script set only for comments.

I know some concurrents use custom downloads to allow to customize the font without having to use stylistic sets – Input does it, MonoLisa too. But it seems like a lot of work.

Those sets only target italic characters; maybe you could include versions with alternates italics in the main download? Like a PragmataPro Liga Script Regular?

I'm just so sad not to be able to see those beautiful characters…

fabrizioschiavi commented 2 years ago

I know it. It's important to have the possibility of to customize PragmataPro as other fonts. In this field I need help because I can't do it and the programmers I contacted leave me alone. If someone can build this customizer please do not exitate to contact me. Thanks!

saltyfireball commented 2 years ago

I know it. It's important to have the possibility of to customize PragmataPro as other fonts. In this field I need help because I can't do it and the programmers I contacted leave me alone. If someone can build this customizer please do not exitate to contact me. Thanks!

@fabrizioschiavi I could build this if you would like to discuss.

fabrizioschiavi commented 1 year ago

Could you try to customize PragmataPro using OT Feature Freezer? It seems the solution we waiting. https://github.com/fabrizioschiavi/pragmatapro/issues/270#issuecomment-1807157407

svipas commented 1 year ago

I prepared a simple script for macOS (but you can adapt it to any OS quite easily) if somebody wants to use it instead of OTFeatureFreezer GUI. First you need to download PragmataPro from www.fsd.it and extract it. Open your terminal and go to the place with cd where .ttf fonts of PragmataPro are. And, run this script below:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Install - python and pipx
brew install python pipx &> /dev/null
pipx ensurepath &> /dev/null

# Download - OpenType Feature Freezer (https://github.com/twardoch/fonttools-opentype-feature-freezer)
pipx install opentype-feature-freezer &> /dev/null

# Build - Italic stylistic alternates
pyftfeatfreeze -f 'ss09' PragmataProI_liga_0829.ttf PragmataProI_liga_0829_script.ttf
pyftfeatfreeze -f 'ss09' PragmataPro_Mono_I_liga_0829.ttf PragmataPro_Mono_I_liga_0829_script.ttf
echo "Italic stylistic alternates have been built"

# Build - Bold Italic stylistic alternates
pyftfeatfreeze -f 'ss10' PragmataProZ_liga_0829.ttf PragmataProZ_liga_0829_script.ttf
pyftfeatfreeze -f 'ss10' PragmataPro_Mono_Z_liga_0829.ttf PragmataPro_Mono_Z_liga_0829_script.ttf
echo "Bold Italic stylistic alternates have been built"

After it's done you will find new .ttf files which will end with _script.ttf. Install them and you're good to go. Remember to kill and relaunch your IDE or Terminal so it recognizes new font files.