On 15 October 2013 16:35, Esteban Lorenzano <[email protected]> wrote:
> except that it is not accurate :) > > - with a monospace you can have bolds and italic without problems (it is a > decent one)... and you also can play with sizes (for example, for comments) > - when you copy&paste you will lose part of your formatting no matter if > you have a fixed font or a proportional one (is not true that you lose all > of them... in fact I usually do not lose any) > > yaya... "you can use any spaced font, as long as it monospaced" :P but taking serious.. it is just about personal preference, nothing more. I don't see how monospaced fonts are any better than normal ones. I agree in only one: it must be a decent, clearly readable font. > On Oct 15, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Excellent arguments ! > > I am with you 100% > > > > On 15 Oct 2013, at 15:21, Igor Stasenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Since the days when editors was able to allow me using any fonts, i was > always switching to variable-spaced font > >> for code pane. And i am not speaking about smalltalk or pharo here, it > was C and Pascal those days :) > >> > >> guess, what i would prefer in pharo? :) > >> > >> The bad things about getting used to monospaced fonts is that you > format code and it looks perfect, > >> but then you print it or copy/paste it somewhere else where it uses > other font, and all your beautiful formatting are gone. > >> Needless to say, that printing press was invented way before first > computer or digital printer, and all we know about fonts came > >> to us from the printing world.. and i think i would be right saying > that before first digital printers there was not such thing as monospaced > >> fonts, because it is not economically efficient: you don't want to > waste space on front page of your newspaper by aligning glyphs to some > virtual grid. > >> More than that, it works well only if you using same font size and no > bold/underline variants whatever.. as soon as you use variants or different > font size, > >> all the benefits of 'formatting' using monospaced font is gone. > >> That means, if we employ monospaced font for code, we will be forced to > not use bold/italic variants, or different font size (for instance, > >> i would be like to play with code highlight scheme, where comments > using different font size, or where method name uses bigger font size etc). > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Best regards, > >> Igor Stasenko. > > > > > > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
