Ligature for 8<

[mmahmoudian]

it is common to have this scissor-like notation 8< in mailing lists and files to indicate a section that should be "cut" and used elsewhere. I have see in in the context of showing code blocks in emails and on Github [example]

This is how it is commonly used:

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
some code here
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

I have also seen it with space surrounding it

-- 8< ---------------cut here---------------end--------------- >8 ---
some code here
-- 8< ---------------cut here---------------start------------- >8 ---

My suggestion ligature is a simple scissor. I will try to come up with a mockup.

I propose this:

It has the same width and height of a Fira Mono.

The cut-ligature-proposal.svg

[tonsky]

Hm. I’ll think about it