On 04/01/2022 15:14, J Martin Rushton wrote:
OK, I'll admit I only skimmed it, hence "I've saved the paper to read later"! I've got Doob's "A Gentle Introduction to TeX" and Oetiker's "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e" both of which keep to the fixed width convention. Again, I'll be honest, I rarely use them since I've retired though.
Reading through this, I'd just like to say I think we're confusing two things. Iirc someone said "Courier is a crap font" and the discussion rapidly veered off into fixed width.
While I have no real comment to make about Courier, and I think there are much better fonts out there, I do think we should keep fixed-width for code. Just look for a better font :-)
Cheers, Wol
