Juarez Rudsatz
Juarez Rudsatz
No. It's not a good idea to add a fake char. :) It should consider: - Maintaining text metrics - Fitting chars in text grid - There are many things...
I did some sketches testing some possibilities:  1. Original Iosevka SS08 2. Changed horizontal placement 3. Changed vertical placement 4. Rotated in two directions 5. Reduced Height 6. Rotated...
@vipcom: - Wonderful [post](https://blog.janestreet.com/commas-in-big-numbers-everywhere/)! Thanks. - I did'nt known [Numderline](https://thume.ca/numderline/) before. - But I'm relieved now because it's not just me that has trouble with a lot of digits. @alexeyten:...
@be5invis: - Great! - I'll wait by rc4 release for testing in my workstation. - I can't see good reasons for justifying a big footprint impact. Any of theses solutions...
@be5invis: - Maybe apostrophes for the calc because of the huge size of the digits in the display. And this is not always the case in IDE text. - The...
There is something that I can help exploring with this issue? Or maybe you conclude that it's good enough?
Another form supported in some engines/fonts is [Old](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/advanced/opentype-font-features#old-style-numerals) Style [Numerals](https://helpx.adobe.com/fonts/using/open-type-syntax.html#onum):  Also I've found some information for digit grouping [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Digit_grouping) and in open type feature [onum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typographic_features#Features_intended_for_digits_and_math). Also a...
I've enabled *Old Style Numerals* in font config by: 1. Creating a config file at `~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf` 2. Enabling `onum` fontfeature for Iosevka in as the example bellow. ``` xml Enable...
In my [previous](https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka/issues/453#issuecomment-601948741) exploration I noticed that: 1. Maybe there isn't a unique approach that fits all contexts for number readability, IMHO: 1. approaches like `underlining` improve the readability more...
Wondering if an alternative similar to old style figures like in #397 can work for improving readability of numbers with many digits. :thinking: