Recently I came across with this issue in GitHub about proper font handling. Also, There is a lot of topics here about the same kind of subject.
So, I want to ask, how is the level of priority for the font support in Sublime Text?
I specially ask this, because today we have much improved fonts that helps a lot in our productivity, specially if we need to deal with multi-language text files (as my case, also).
What I really want to see in Sublime Text:
- Full set of Open Type features. (not just the
ss01-ss10and some basic ligatures). - Support for variable fonts (these fonts are amazing, we can choose exactly the stroke size and this makes things much nicer).
- Custom
fallback fontoption. This is really important to people working in multi-language document. For example, in my case, when I work with Japanese documents, I really prefer to use a combination of two fonts, one for the coding, the other for the Japanesemonospacedhanzi.
After I saw a lot of topics about these topics (specially OpenType Features), even ones with more than 5 years, I am afraid that this has a low priority for the developer team.
For anyone interested, I tested the Zed editor and it offers all these font features. Their implementation of font features is superb. As I find Sublime Text much superior (in approach, plugin system and design), I would be very happy to see the editor catching up in typography too.
My final question is:
What is the level of priority for font support in Sublime Text? Will these listed features come out anytime soon?