From bb37516d6fc143f99efa1cdee408b4373d8c4a7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kovid Goyal Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 21:38:05 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add a note to the README about kitty's font control features --- README.asciidoc | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.asciidoc b/README.asciidoc index 05666f313..a37b193e6 100644 --- a/README.asciidoc +++ b/README.asciidoc @@ -281,6 +281,17 @@ launch emacs kitty has a few extensions to the xterm protocol, to enable advanced features, see link:protocol-extensions.asciidoc[Protocol Extensions]. + +== Font control + +kitty has extremely flexible and powerful font selection features. You can +specify individual families for the regular, bold, italic and bold+italic +fonts. You can even specify specific font families for specific ranges of +unicode characters. This allows precise control over text rendering. It can +come in handy for applications like powerline, without the need to use patched +fonts. See the various font related configuration directives in the +link:kitty/kitty.conf[config file]. + == Note for Linux/macOS packagers While kitty does use python, it is not a traditional python package, so please do not install it in site-packages.