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Subject: Re: [9fans] acme fonts
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:09:05 +0100
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>>in acme.  While [proportional typeface] gives you a bit of screen space, ...

actually, i use it because it looks good, is easier to read, and i
think contributes to the overall good look of a plan 9 screen.
perhaps it increases the amount of text on the screen but i was never
particularly worred about that.
(if i worried about screen space, i suppose i'd write less,
or switch to sms-style.  u no t mx sns.)
if i started to worry about formatting, i'd stop writing assembler!
actually, even by the time of QED, assembly source code didn't bother
lining up the comments, just tabbed over and said what there was to say.
not that it was chatty, even then...