Before Apple made WYSIWYG (what you see (on the screen) is what you
get (on the printer)) the norm, and even before that when displays
were monospaced character (not graphics) oriented, and printers were
also monospaced with just one character set, straight printing was an
ugly unformatted dump of characters. It was not a pretty sight. It
took a lot of work and formatting characters or commands to make a
printout look pretty (formatted for readability). So the term pretty
printing meant the process of printing with the formatting. However,
I haven't actually heard the term used in the last 20+ years until
today.
Dennis
On Jul 1, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Eric,
Is that what it is really called? Pretty printing? Or is that a
translation thing?
It just sounds a little funny.
It's really called that.
I *think* the name was first used in Lisp back in the 60s ....
certainly it was in common use by the time I got involved in
computers (1970), though it was still a "feature" then; it has
become so ubiquitous that the word itself is less frequently needed
these days - everyone knows programs should be laid out sensibly
(even if they don't agree on what is sensible :-)
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