I've launched a GitHub project to handle this kind of font transformations automatically. Kerning will be bad (not too much of a problem, as it's only a fallback).Wide characters will bleed a bit onto neighbouring spaces (though they can be slightly shrunk to mitigate the issue).This is useless for advanced typography, but it's a nice compromise if you want to use symbols in your source code without ruining indentation. The animation below shows using Consolas + Symbola as a fallback, versus using Consolas + a monospacified version of Symbola:
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Though it's true that "monospacifying" a full font will yield horrible results (kerning, stroke widths, and general balance will all be entirely messed up), importing just a few symbols from a variable-width font into a monospace one yields decent results. In that context, most of the source code is displayed in one monospace font, and a few symbols that are not covered by that font end up ruining alignment. I came across this very problem trying to edit source code making heavy use of Unicode symbols.
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And combining diacriticals (accents intended to be "combined" with letters at render-time) may have all their positions messed up (which is hard to test if you're American/English and you almost never use them).Ī person who knows how to create and edit fonts would be able to do this task but it still wouldn't be straightforward. You'll probably have to manually edit all the wide characters such as 'W', 'M', etc so they don't end up overlapping. To actually edit the width of all glyphs at once in a batch, you can just go to "Metrics" -> "Set Width" on the menu, but I wouldn't expect it to work for all characters. See the FAQ entry "How do I mark a font as monospaced?" This includes even glyphs that should normally be zero width, or a certain width (such as em spaces, em dashes, etc). The bad news is that it has a relatively high learning curve and a somewhat unusual user interface.īasically, for a font to be considered monospace, every glyph has to be the same width, right down to the exact same number of units. If you don't already have any font editing software, the good news is that Fontforge is free and open source.
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