Upvoting for the looped "st" ligatures in the slides. +1 would sit through

dddbbb · on April 16, 2020

I find those quite odd. It seems overly ornate compared to the rest of the font, which doesn't even contain the 'fi' ligature.

mgubi · on April 16, 2020

Me too, this is the Linux Libertine font. I need to fine a way to disable those ligatures :)

imglorp · on April 16, 2020

Please, all deities, nobody use that ST ligature. It's cute for about a millisecond and then it's annoying.

mgubi · on April 17, 2020

I checked just now and indeed that ligature has been supressed in the recent versions of TeXmacs. :)

ncmncm · on April 18, 2020

It was never the default. You don't get them unless you specifically ask for them.

mgubi · on April 18, 2020

No,in a previous version of TeXmacs they were active by default, we changed that now.

ncmncm · on April 18, 2020

It is not Linux Libertine, it is Biolinum, which happens to come packaged with Libertine. Libertine is a serif font in the Caslon penumbra.

The author turned on the "st" elective ligature, but not the "ct", which is entirely why it looks odd.

You don't get those ligatures without specifically asking for them. It must be said that the Libertine ones look better.

danielbarla · on April 16, 2020

Seriously, is this really a (good) thing? I opened the slides, and spent the first 3-5 seconds having my eyes drawn to this ligature, trying to figure out why this word is different than what my brain is used to. I cannot imagine that this is a desirable effect.

Clearly, I'm missing something, happy to be corrected!