acme font

[Greg A. Woods woods@most.weird.com]

[ On Thu, October  5, 1995 at 23:40:38 (GMT), Mikael Cardell wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: acme font
>
> A simple, short example on this is this section, ripped from 
> /sys/include/libg.h:
> 
> /*
>  * Codes for bitblt etc.
>  *
>  *	       D
>  *	     0   1
>  *         ---------
>  *	 0 | 1 | 2 |
>  *     S   |---|---|
>  * 	 1 | 4 | 8 |
>  *         ---------
>  *
>  *	Usually used as D|S; DorS is so tracebacks are readable.
>  */
> 
> I hope you're reading this with a proportional font now. This is
> simple enough to be understood even *with* a proportional font,
> but I find a lot of examples in other's code that heavily relies on
> the use of space characters for indentation in both code and
> comments.

What you've got there is a table, which is what 'tab' characters *could*
be used for, assuming we had some way to embed the tabular
specifications inband with the text.  Perhaps this could be a use for
some of the as yet un-allocated characters in Unicode?

I've been day dreaming about such things for years now!  ;-)

Of course this won't help us with editing "foreign" code....

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