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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Processing C language listings -- Help!
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 11:10:03 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Message-ID: <4g525b$9t2@solutions.solon.com>
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- In article <harmon.823852728@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
- Derek Harmon <harmon@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:
- > Never had the problem with quote marks, I guess Word is just more sinister
- >about these things.
-
- It rather is; you have to change not one, but *two* settings to completely
- disable the feature. Horrible.
-
- >But you say it yourself, the proportional fonts are de-
- >stroying your spacing. First, use a utility or p.d. text editor to convert
- >all your tabs to spaces (I have to do that very thing before uploading these
- >messages to this group, Borland's IDE sticks tabs through my code snippets).
-
- This is precisely the opposite of the first thing I do; I make sure all
- indentation is tabs, so the indentation stays consistent in the face of
- proportional fonts.
-
- >Tab stops vary between page styles.
-
- So you set the tab stops for your code style to be consistent.
- Quoted code merits new formatting.
-
- > Ok, there are no C snippets in this post -- but try presenting your C source
- >to a manager or professor printed via "type source.c > prn" compared to Ami Pro
- >with italicized variables and bold keywords, and you'll understand.
-
- I've never had the misfortune to work for someone who likes overformatted
- text. Do you hand in English text with italicized pronouns and bold
- prepositions? Code should be read, not hidden by frills and fonts.
-
- And, as Pike argues quite persuasively, proportional fonts are much more
- readable; try using a decent editor (sam works for me) with proportional
- fonts, and see if your code looks better; mine certainly does that way, and
- it's a lot easier to read.
-
- Monospace fonts are something we should be looking to get over.
-
- -s
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