More ligatures

[alinnert]

I really love these very unique ligatures. I also like how well they scale. The lines of the === lig are evenly spread on many font sizes - more than in other fonts.

But I'm missing some I'm already used to. I think Fira Code is a great example of which ligatures could be implemented. It contains quite a few. But also some got removed again because they caused trouble in some circumstances. So, the ligature list is also based on some experience.

The most important ones for me are:

• == != (if I stumble over them in JS, or for other languages)
  • := (Golang)
• ?. ?? (Very close to become part of JS)
• |> (pipeline operator, might come to JS too)
  • <| (some functional languages also use this one)
• <!-- --> </ /> (HTML, XML)
• <!--- ---> (CFML, not sure if other languages use these too)
• += -= *= /= ++ -- && ||
  • __ (CSS with BEM)
  • .= (PHP)

I'm also a fan of contextual alignment, when 0xFF looks more like 0×FF (the x turns more into something like the × in HTML), or the allignment of : between numbers.

I hope these find their way into Inconsolata as well.

[mslagell]

Mostly != is the one I miss. (It's actually okay with me if == doesn't get changed.) Thanks.