From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 12:30:19 -0400 From: Greg A. Woods woods@most.weird.com Subject: acme font Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2bcc04f6-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19951006163019.k03KSiWXDe7gK725ppTbGqf_3Rg26Es_UKjGfUOTG38@z> [ 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.... -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP robohack!woods Planix, Inc. ; Secrets of the Weird