Francesco Abbate

Dear ladies, gentlemen, it took a while and quite some work but I was finally able to bake the support for retina displays in [lite-xl](https://github.com/franko/lite-xl). The package is available there:...

I was bothered by this problem since I began using Lite but I put this aside in a corner of my mind. Still the problem was popping out whenever I...

Are you sure you are using the 1.14 package ? On which OS you are ? You can do also a more simple test to check: - open a file...

I have fixed the problem you are reporting in [Lite XL](https://github.com/franko/lite-xl) with the corresponding [1.11 release](https://github.com/franko/lite-xl/releases/tag/v1.11-lite-xl). Lite XL is my fork of Lite with improved font rendering. I've also sent...

I am open to amend its behavior if you have a suggestion.

If a library is available only as a static library it means that an application that tries to link using `pkg-config --libs` will fail. So the application needs to know...

I would love too to have ligatures for lite-xl. I made some preliminary research and it seems that the way to do it is HarfBuzz as you mentioned above. The...

I don't have time to work on that now but I found out that the harfbuzz library can be used without introducing unneeded dependencies. This means we can easily build...

Looking to the plugin here: https://github.com/lite-xl/lite-plugins/blob/master/plugins/texcompile.lua it is a little bit crude. It requires to have the environment variable `LITE_LATEX_COMPILER` defined. Alternatively you may put the command directly in the...

In theory you should replace the line: ```lua local texcmd = os.getenv("LITE_LATEX_COMPILER") ``` with the line: ```lua local texcmd = "C:\\texlive\\bin\\win32\\latexmk.exe" ``` to provide the command you want to use...