On Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 16:51:34 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 17:33 +0100, mist wrote:
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:O You are probably the very first programmer I have
encountered so far that prefers proportional fonts for code. I
need some time to even try to imagine how this may look.
Use an editor like GEdit and change the font to a proportional
one and
admire how much nicer the code looks!
GEdit is rather weak :( I am using VIM and Eclipse for coding and
changed Eclipse font to monospaced Terminus font from default
proportional. Problem I have with proportional fonts - they are
not random-access ranges but sequential ones :) My brain is not
capable of computing required offset for 30-40 proportional
symbols in no observable time, contrary to monospaced.
I still prefer proportional for books and web, of course, because
it looks better and normal reading is indeed sequential.
