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| `>==` | (no ligature) | (no ligature) |
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## Rationale
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I was always jealous for folks using [Fira Code](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode),
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I (Kirill Pertsev) was always jealous for folks using [Fira Code](https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode),
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[Hasklig](https://github.com/i-tu/Hasklig) or [Monoid](https://github.com/larsenwork/monoid)
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fonts, but my problem is that I have a hard time reading (not even mentioning writing)
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a computer program in anything but 8x16 font. I probably spent too much time with older
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a computer program in anything but an 8x16 font. I probably spent too much time with older
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computers. So after fighting and losing an uphill battle with Glyph2, Fontlab and Fontforge
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I discovered [TTX](https://github.com/behdad/fonttools) and was able to finally stop being jealous.
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## History
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This font is a simulated 8x16 bitmap font from old Windows and DOS. It was
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truly monospaced and really bitmapped and initially contained only Western ASCII
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charset.
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truly monospaced and really bitmapped and initially contained only
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windows-1250, windows-1251, a subset of windows-1252, windows-1253
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and windows-1254.
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Darien simulated the bitmap with TrueType outlines by building the font from
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10x10 squares ("pixels") and then joining the squares together. As such, this font
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only works as intended in only one size and usually with antialiasing switched
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off. The size is 16px or 12pt.
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off. The size is 16px, or 12pt@96dpi.
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He also added a lot of foreign characters and made the font Unicode.
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The supported programming ligatures are listed in the `ligatures.txt` file.
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To create a TTF file from TTX XML just run `ttx -f FSEX.ttx`
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(`-f` means overwrite) or use OS X Makefile to also copy to the user Fonts
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folder and update font cache.
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To create a TTF file from TTX XML, just run `ttx -f FSEX.ttx`
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(`-f` means overwrite) or use the OS X Makefile to also copy it to the user Fonts
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folder and update the font cache.
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## Supported software (incomplete list, send updates please)
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