On 15 October 2013 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)

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.

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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.
>
>





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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko.