acme font

[Andrew Bromage bromage@cs.mu.oz.au]

G'day.

rob@plan9.ATt.COM writes:

>A fixed-pitch font is old fashioned.  Outside the Unix domain,
>most computer text is variable-pitch these days.  Fixed-pitch
>will soon follow in the footsteps of CAPITAL LETTERS AND PUNCHED
>CARDS.

I was almost moved to post this to rec.arts.ascii and see what the
response was.

Maybe I mix with the wrong sorts of people, but there are more than
a few programmers "out there" (myself included) who put diagrams and
formatted tables in their comments.  Text diagrams and proportional
fonts don't mix very well.  I hope that fixed-pitch fonts don't
disappear until something like literate programming becomes common.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage