I’m deciding whether to purchase Sublime Text 4. I need to know the degree of support for proportional fonts. Are there Sublime Text 4 features that won’t work, or won’t work 100%? If the question is discussed in Sublime Text 4 documentation, I’ve managed to miss the entry. I’ve also searched the forum, but there are no discussions about this question for Sublime Text 4, and the few discussions that exist are mostly quite old.
Thanks.
Thanks for the link to the discussion that you started on Github. While the discussion goes back to 2014, there are more recent recent contributions, including from @wbond, who I gather works on Sublime Text.
I was particularly interested in Nikita Prokopov’s (@tonsky) 2021 comments. As some will know, he’s the person who added code-oriented glyphs to Erik Spiekermann’s Fira Mono, renaming it Fira Code. There’s a link in the discussion to Prokopov’s interesting, and helpful, blog post Building an ultimate writing machine from Sublime Text.
Agreed, having support for proportional fonts would be amazing. There’s a lot of nice fonts, such as Input, which sadly don’t work well in ST currently.
Hi @lovelymono,
Input Mono, as distinct from the proportional version of Input, is supposed to work fine in Sublime Text. I’d be interested in learning about any problems that you’re having.
As you may know, the designer of Input, David Jonathan Ross, comments on Sublime Text and proportional Input on his website: Issues & Workarounds in Source Code Editors.
I’m talking about Input Sans, obviously. I know that Input Mono works fine, but it’s just too… monospaced for me.