On Oct 15, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
On 15 Oct 2013, at 16:35, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> 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)
Sorry, but there are no sensible arguments in favour of a monospaced font. It is just not needed (in Smalltalk). Another way to look at it is: 99.99 % of the world use proportional fonts.
BTW, I think whoever made this 'decision' knew it would be _very_ hard to get this passed ;-)
Maybe we should switch to C/Java/Javascript syntax so that we do not scare newcomers ? Sorry, I could not resist.
not taken. and non sense. idea is to welcome newcomers, not to became another language. Now... if font is *part* of the language, we could be talking about the same. But since it is not, then we are comparing apples with tomatoes. I can say that no, 99% of the world do not use proportional fonts... every other programing environment uses monospaced fonts. yeah, I know "we are different"... but we still code. Ah, no, sorry... we "manipulate objects", but that looks really close to coding for me. and yes... I was expecting a lot of whining (even if it was not me *alone* who took the decision), but I was expecting from people at least wait to see the fonts before start the bashing ;)
On Oct 15, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
Excellent arguments ! I am with you 100%
On 15 Oct 2013, at 15:21, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> 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.