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rajcsanyiz's avatar

Blade template and PHP shorthand ligatures

FiraCode is a very cool tool to see your source code. Maybe it is much more smarter, so I make some issue here:

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https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/1152 https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/1153

What do you think about this topic!? It is meaningful or not.

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automica's avatar

@rajcsanyiz I’ve downvoted, your change doesn’t add any value. In the context of laravel using blade syntax it’s even less relevant.

smartify

Why would you want to make blade like smarty?

rajcsanyiz's avatar

What do you think? What is the proper topic to this topic? Could you give me some suggestions?

automica's avatar

@rajcsanyiz i'm a bit unclear what you are campaigning for here?

are you trying to replace:

{!! $var !!}

with

{ !! $var !! }
rajcsanyiz's avatar

Ok.

Jeffrey Way and Andre Madarang continuously use FiraCode in their video lessons.

see: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode

you can read more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature

This font doesn't support Blade Template format exactly, because never asked the font's owner anyone to develop an appropriate format.

It is not a white space question, it is a design or typography problem.

The question is that, If laracasts is not the right place to discuss this problem whatever is the place?

automica's avatar

@rajcsanyiz its definitely the right place to discuss it.

I can kind of see the benefit but can see issues when someone is trying to use a character that isn't supported natively in php (and that's coming from a degree in graphic design and visual arts)

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rajcsanyiz's avatar

I found JetBrains monospaced fonts, that is super cool and free:

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/mono/

It seems to be support our laravel blade template in the close future. I hope...

I give up to ask firacode to develop our demands...

vue, laravel, scss, apentajs, etc...

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