ligature support

[Tim Gray]

I've been using Fira Code for my font in BBEdit and ligatures have been supported with no additional action on my part. (In fact, I don't know how to turn them off). Anyway, I bought a new font, Berkeley Mono [1], and installed the version with ligatures. To my surprise, they aren't showing up. Is there anything I need to do on my part to get them to show up? I plan on writing the authors to see if they have any thoughts.

Just to test, I did try the font in iTerm, and the ligatures do work when I check the Use Ligatures check box.

[1]: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono/

Thanks!
Tim

[Gary Ash]

Do a defaults write com.barebones.bbedit EnableFontLigatures -bool true in your terminal and restart BBEdit

[Tim Gray]

that did it!  Thanks.  Not sure why I didn't need that for Fira Code...? 

[flet...@cumuli.com]

The preference can be set per font. Maybe it was set for Fira but not for all fonts. The documentation for Fira says to use this line.

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit "EnableFontLigatures_Fira Code" -bool YES

You can use this to list all the preference values and see if it was set.

defaults read com.barebones.bbedit

[fletcher]

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