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Show HN: I built a RAG engine to search Singaporean laws

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1•ambitious_potat•5m ago•0 comments

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3•geox•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

A font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting

https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/a-font-with-built-in-tex-syntax-highlighting/
44•LorenDB•1mo ago

Comments

punkpeye•1mo ago
Fascinating
gwern•1mo ago
Note: this is different from https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245159 which recently resurfaced, and is cited as prior art.
ptspts•1mo ago
As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.
fph•1mo ago
I suppose this gets useful in applications where you can change the font, but not add syntax highlighting. Besides being a neat trick, of course.
colechristensen•1mo ago
>As a text editor user, I prefer selecting the font and the syntax highlighting independently. This font is not useful for me.

Then it's not for you. This comment does not add anything to the conversation and comments like these are better left unwritten.

magicalhippo•1mo ago
From what I can gather, the underlying feature that enables this is vontextual alternates[1], primarily intended to adjust letters based on adjacent letters to improve legibility.

edit: I see the referenced inspiration[2] explains it in detail.

[1]: https://typenetwork.com/articles/opentype-at-work-contextual...

[2]: https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...