On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:12 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2003-02-28 07:52, Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Wes Peters wrote:
> > > No, but your editor really ought to be able to interpret tab
> > > stops correctly at like 0.5 in increments. Code editors on the
> > > Mac have been doing this for years.
> >
> > If editors like this were more common, it would be a lot easier to
> > justify use of proportional fonts in coding editors. I don't think
> > anyone really cares how many characters there are after a tabstop,
> > so long as the visual layout is uniform to the left of the code.
> > If you use indentation, this still works, no mater what your font,
> > as long as there are fixed indentations per tab (IMO).
>
> True, true. The printouts of code created with literate programming
> tools like tangle/weave and their many offsprings are very easy to
> read if indentation has constant width.
>
> The font of the program text isn't really important, as long as
> nesting isn't horribly broken by someone who typed the wrong number
> of spaces instead of just hitting tab.
But the font of the program text *is* important if you are considering
readability. We use variable-width fonts for books and printed matter
because they are easier to read than monospaced fonts.
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