I&#x27;m not sure why this has to be done in the font. Vim has support for conceal characters, which can &quot;conceal&quot; syntactic constructs into other characters, i.e., any Unicode code point. This works out pretty well in LaTeX documents for example, because you can see the mathematical symbols. [1]<p>One gripe I have though is that columns become misaligned when you have concealed characters or ligatures. In the source, \alpha is 6 columns and \beta is 5. Displayed, α and β are both 1 column. This messes up things like visual block insert mode, because the location of that column in the source and what&#x27;s being displayed might differ. Should you line up the displayed version and make it look nice for you and those with the same plugin, or don&#x27;t you?<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vim-pandoc&#x2F;vim-pandoc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vim-pandoc&#x2F;vim-pandoc</a>