On 11/09/09 08:53, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote: > > Linda W<[email protected]> skribis: >> (If you can't read this in HTML, you are deprived, and maybe, in the >> internet "3rd world", my condolences, as documents structure can't be >> properly represented in plain text, > > Oh, I can read this in HTML, but thanks for the insult anyway and > welcome to my killfile.
So can I, but after reading maybe one-quarter of such a long document in silly colors, and scanning maybe a second quarter, I stopped without even having noticed the insult quoted above. I can use HTML, I even do my publishing in HTML (rather than PDF or MS-Word), but I prefer my emails in plaintext and reasonably short. Yours (Linda's) were neither. You can see an example of my HTML _web_ production at http://users.skynet.be/antoine.mechelynck/ -- and BTW, no silly default-text colors. If that makes me an underdeveloped third-rater third-worlder, so be it. I'll stay with people of my kind such as Raúl and Bram, and you (Linda) can go back to your snobbish ilk who think that HTML is the be-all end-all of the Internet, even in mail. The document-presentation power of HTML makes it all too easy to misuse, thus producing documents which are hard on the eyes while unduly hungry of bandwidth. Plaintext may be less pretty, but it is much harder to make documents illegible by misusing it. (Oh, I'm sure a genius could achieve illegibility and eye-hurtingness even with plaintext, and I'm *not* challenging you -- or anyone -- to try.) Some versions of gvim, such as the GTK+2 versions, can use any installed fonts, but proportional ones look ugly, because they are still displayed in the fixed-sized character cells which, AFAICT, Vim is not going to abandon in any foreseeable future: narrow characters such as proportional "i" look surrounded by too much empty space, and/or wide ones such as "m" look cramped. This goes double for Arabic, where (word-) initial and medial letters are usually much narrower (in proportional fonts) than final and isolated ones -- maybe up to three or four times, or more. There are a lot of monospaced fonts out there, and I have more than a few installed on my openSUSE 11.1 system, but some of them I had to install from "optional" SuSE packages (the distro didn't install them by default) while some others I got from outside sources and I don't remember which outside sources or their URLs. Code20xx I don't have, but thanks to the backend code included in my GTK+2 gvim, even characters for which my usual font has no glyph can be displayed because GTK+2 gvim is "clever" enough to look for them in other fonts. They are sometimes "recognizably different" from the characters surrounding them (and found in the font), and they are not always prim-pram-pretty, but for the needs of a text editor like Vim they are quite good enough (and of course far better than a hollow rectangle or a reverse-video question mark). Regards, Tony. -- Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation ... the other eight are unimportant. -- Henry Miller --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
