Sunset ligature removal

bin/scripts/gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher!.sh

@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ function patch_font {
   if [ -f "$config_parent_dir/config.json" ]
   then
     # load font configuration file and remove ligatures (for mono fonts):
+    # (tables have been removed from the repo with >this< commit)
     font_config="--removeligatures --configfile $config_parent_dir/config.json"
   else
     font_config=""

font-patcher

@@ -620,6 +620,7 @@ class font_patcher:
 
     def remove_ligatures(self):
         # let's deal with ligatures (mostly for monospaced fonts)
+        # the tables have been removed from the repo with >this< commit
         if self.args.configfile and self.config.read(self.args.configfile):
             if self.args.removeligatures:
                 print("Removing ligatures from configfile `Subtables` section")

src/config.sample.json

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
 [Subtables]
-	ligatures: [
-		"Single Substitution lookup 1 subtable" ]
+       ligatures: [
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 9 subtable",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 11 subtable",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 12 contextual 0",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 12 contextual 1",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 12 contextual 2",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 18 subtable",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 19 contextual 0",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 24 contextual 0",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 24 contextual 1",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 24 contextual 2",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 24 contextual 3",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 24 contextual 4",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 24 contextual 5",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 26 subtable",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 33 contextual 0",
+               "'dlig' Discretionary Ligatures lookup 33 contextual 1" ]

src/readme-per-directory-addendum.md

@@ -7,27 +7,28 @@
   * If you are on Windows pick a font with the `'Windows Compatible'` suffix.
     * This includes specific tweaks to ensure the font works on Windows, in particular monospace identification and font name length limitations
   * If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with the `'Mono'` suffix.
-    * This denotes that the Nerd Font glyphs will be monospaced not necessarily that the entire font will be monospaced
+  * If you want to have bigger icons (usually around 1.5 normal letters wide) pick a font without `'Mono'` suffix. Most terminals support this, but ymmv.
 
 ### Ligatures
 
-By the *Nerd Font* policy, the variant with the `'Mono'` suffix is not supposed to have any ligatures.
-Use the non-*Mono* variants to have ligatures.
+Ligatures are generally preserved in the patched fonts.
+Nerd Fonts `v2.0.0` had no ligatures in the `Nerd Font Mono` fonts, this has been dropped with `v2.1.0`.
+If you have a ligature-aware terminal and don't want ligatures you can (usually) disable them in the terminal settings.
 
 ### Explanation
 
 Once you narrow down your font choice of family (`Droid Sans`, `Inconsolata`, etc) and style (`bold`, `italic`, etc) you have 2 main choices:
 
 #### `Option 1: Download already patched font`
 
- * download an already patched font from the `complete` folder
-   * This is most likely the one you want. It includes **all** of the glyphs from all of the glyph sets. Only caution here is that some fonts have glyphs in the _same_ code point so to include everything some had to be moved to alternate code points.
+ * For a stable version download a font package from the [release page](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases)
+ * Or download the development version from the `complete` folder here
 
 #### `Option 2: Patch your own font`
 
  * patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (see each font's readme for full list of combinations available)
    * This is the option you want if the font you use is _not_ already included or you want maximum control of what's included
-   * This contains a list of _all permutations_ of the various glyphs. E.g. You want the font with only [Octicons][octicons] or you want the font with just [Font Awesome][font-awesome] and [Devicons][vorillaz-devicons]. The goal is to provide every combination possible in this folder.
+   * This contains a list of _all permutations_ of the various glyphs. E.g. You want the font with only [Octicons][octicons] or you want the font with just [Font Awesome][font-awesome] and [Devicons][vorillaz-devicons].
 
 
 For more information see: [The FAQ](https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshooting#which-font)