Powerline glyphs

[Gonzih]

Hi, I love this font! :) great job!

But what I am miss right now in it is powerline glyphs. I tried to manually use powerline font patcher and got at least some result :

Unfortunately there is a small gap on each side of the glyph. And instead of monkey patching/manually adjusting glyphs I though that it might be possible to contribute to the original font. But I'm honestly not sure where to start. Powerline font patcher stores glyphs in a sfd format and I'm not sure what to do with them.

Can you give me some tips on where to look and at least how to approach this problem?

Thanks a lot!

[Gonzih]

I read on this problem with powerline patchers and looks like iosevka is actually easy to patch. Most of other fonts get messed up much worse after patching.

[be5invis]

So, how does this looks like?

[Gonzih]

It looks great! I think issue with spacing between characters is problem with my linux, not with the font. Playing with dpi setting and line-spacing solved it before for the different fonts.

Thanks a lot! This is great!

[trusktr]

@be5invis I'm seeing this on the website, in Chromium Linux 45.0.2454.85 (64-bit):

Note the edges of the triangles going past the edge of the powerline.

[Gonzih]

I don't see that in terminal.
On Sep 11, 2015 10:32 PM, "Joseph Orbegoso Pea" notifications@github.com
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I'm seeing this on the website, in Chromium Linux 45.0.2454.85 (64-bit):

[image: screenshot from 2015-09-11 13-28-44]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/297678/9825644/8ae5b39a-5889-11e5-8831-8f73f2ed2f6d.png

Note the edges of the triangles going past the edge of the powerline.

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[be5invis]

@trusktr It's caused by Chrome's rounding error. They work well on terminal.

[frol]

I'm using aur/ttf-iosevka-term 1.9.0-2 (Arch Linux AUR packaging) and here is what I get in Gnome 3 Terminal (Gnome 3.20.2, VTE 0.44.2):

(It is not a regression, it looks like that ever since I have installed it.)

Is this a known issue or how can I fix this?

P.S. Thank you for Iosevka gorgeous font!

[be5invis]

@frol You can follow the path with @robertgzr that you can actually adjust the position and size of Powerline glyphs if you really want to fit them perfectly (see #86). If you do not want to rebuild Iosevka, you can also try to adjust the line height or tweak Freetype’s rendering options.
Powerline glyphs are extremely hard to “being perfect”. Correctly rendering them depends on the OS and even rounding rules.