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Use font ligatures to add symbols to your code

Use font ligatures to add symbols to your code

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Use font ligatures to add symbols to your code

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- [Instructor] So far in this course, I've been using the old Consolas font. It's okay, but there are better choices. I've switched to Cascadia Code, which is the new Microsoft monospace font. It's the default for Windows PowerShell and the full version of Visual Studio. I've already installed it on my computer. If you'd like to install it on yours, go to this GitHub location, download the zip file, unzip it, and install on your computer, and then you're ready to follow along. This tip is about using font ligatures, which is a way to add clarifying symbols to your code and text files. To use ligatures, you'll need to install a monospace font with the appropriate ligatures included in the character set, which is why I installed Cascadia Code. There is another choice. The most popular alternative is Fira Code. So you can see here in Visual Studio Code, I went to Settings and I looked for the word font, and I added the highest priority font I want to use is Cascadia Code. The second…

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