Stylistic Set: No backtick variants

[pfitzseb]

Would you consider adding a stylistic set (if that's the appropriate mechanism, that is) to disable the bigger single backtick:

[cormullion]

Which version are you on? I wonder if it was related to #8

[pfitzseb]

Huh, turns out I was on a really old version. Things actually are consistent on later versions (although I'm not quite sure I like how big the backticks are ;)).

[cormullion]

I can easily add a stylistic alternative for those - I do like large punctuation myself, but your eyes are probably sharper...

[pfitzseb]

Looking at it again I think the only complaint I have is that ` looks slightly "heavier" than ' (seems to be slightly wider at the top?):

The size is something I'm sure I'll get used to in time :)

[cormullion]

What's your favourite font in this regard?

[pfitzseb]

I don't think I've seen a monospace font that handles this well (because technically it's an abuse of the grave accent?) yet -- the fact that JuliaMono handles ` the same as ' or " regarding size and placement is really cool:

(Fira Mono)

(JuliaMono)

So in summary: I'm totally happy with the current situation; adjusting the width of the non-diacritic ` would be the cherry on top :)

[simeonschaub]

I must admit, I wasn't the biggest fan of the large backticks at first as well, but I have now really come to enjoy them. I like how it makes them stand out a bit more, with other fonts, you're often not sure whether something is a backtick or a piece of dust on your display 😀. I think it still would be great to have the option to turn these off though.

[cormullion]

OK - I'll add it to my todo-list anyway ... :)

Fira Code is based on Fira, so it probably inherited the non-programming approach to some punctuation marks. Thank you for having such a detailed look!

[pfitzseb]

Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen a font show the non-diacritic differently.

Somewhat unrelated, but there also seems to be a hinting issue (or maybe just messy rendering or bad anti-aliasing) on Windows for certain font sizes that results in ` being unaligned with ' and ":

Looks fine for other font sizes though:

[cormullion]

Yes, probably Windows...

For the best and most accurate display, you need one of these. 🤣 Or any Apple retina display really... Your eyes will thank you, but your bank won't. Windows moves characters around in the process of hinting in order to get the most pixels lit up, so there are sometimes alignment problems, which vary according to font size anyway. I don't have many ways to fix it at the moment. :(

I've added another stylistic set, SS07.

It can go in the next release if you want it. It's called "Smaller grave" - I wanted "Shallow grave" but that was a bit grim...