GX and VF variants

[tormento]

I am a bit confused about the differences between GX and VF and I'd like to have more information about them here or on readme.md, such as compatible editors, how to use them, etc…

Thanks!

[tonsky]

Fair enough! The only difference is how they exported, someone had problem with one of them on Windows, so I created another one but can’t remember which is which now :) Will leave one in the next version. Thanks!

[tonsky]

This one #770

[tormento]

Thans, You have any hint to correctly use them in editors? Windows 10 has full support to VF, the editors a bit less.

[tonsky]

No idea, sorry

[tormento]

@tonsky the FiraCodeGX.ttf is the one working for me under Windows 10 x64 insider 19631. This one shows the major "families", the VF version shows various copies of "Regular" only.

[be5invis]

@tonsky @tormento
FiraCode-VF.ttf has an empty STAT table, which should be the problem.

FiraCodeGX.ttf on the other hand has a sort-of working STAT table. The only thing needed to be change is turn on the ELIDABLE_AXIS_VALUE_NAME flag for the wght-Regular entry.

[tormento]

I hope a unified VF will be out soon ;)