On 2016-11-21 23:59, James Richters wrote: > I, l, 1, AND | are all distinctly > different with it as well as 0 and O. I have a REAL pet peeve about > font's that these characters look identical,
You do realise that not all monospaced fonts are equals. Some monospaced fonts are terrible for programming source code too. Some monospaced fonts don't make much [if any] distinction between those tricky characters either. Then you get fonts like "Input", which actually allows you to configure the fonts before you download them. You can choose how you want the 0 (zero), a, l, i etc rendering style to look like. Go to the following URL and click "Customize your download". You can then configure various character styles (and even line spacing) before you download a customised font just for you. The choice is available for both monospaced and proportional versions of the Input font. http://input.fontbureau.com/download/ So your "pet peeve" (which I also have) holds no merit in this discussion. PS: As for your comment about your son's homework. I've had the exact same issue at my son's school! I can't believe they (the teachers) can be so stupid. > P_Range[1,0]:=0; > I_Range[1,1]:=0; > W_Range[2,0]:=0; > R_Range[2,1]:=1; I prefer spacing between programming language symbols, even though I have syntax highlighting enabled too. So I would write the above as: P_Range[1,0] := 0; I_Range[1,1] := 0; W_Range[2,0] := 0; R_Range[2,1] := 1; I normally use a monospaced font - Raize font to be exact - which is a bitmap based font. But to give you an idea of what the above source code will look like in other editors. Take my code sample above, replace the spaces with single TAB (U+0009) characters. This not only reduces the file size, it also reduces the number of characters any parser needs to process (thus faster parsing and compiling). :) See attached screenshots. text_with_tabs_monospaced_font.png This is viewed with EditPad Pro, using a monospaced font and the TAB size was set to be equal to 2 spaces in width. Other editors text to default TAB width to equals 4 or 8 spaces. Point is, the text will always align. EditPad Pro doesn't support ET. text_with_tabs_Input-Sans_proportional_font_and_ET.png Here I used my experimental Elastic Tabstops enable text editor with a proportional font (Input Sans). Note that the text is still perfectly aligned. Also note that even though I use a proportional font, the 1 (one) and 0 (zero) characters are easily distinguishable from l, I, L, o and O letters. The 3rd note is that with ET, the minimum width and padding are defined in pixels, not [Space] character widths (like most editors do with TAB widths). So this just shows that alignment can be achieved with or without monospaced fonts. Also that not all fonts are created equal. Just like not all monospaced fonts are appropriate for programming (tricky letters and numbers). Also not all proportional fonts are created equal - some are better suited to programming code than others. The "Input Sans" font is actually very nice for source code. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp
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