Default code font (was Re: [squeak-dev] Re: Title bar bug on trunk)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Aug 22 12:23:39 UTC 2009


On 22.08.2009, at 10:42, Ian Trudel wrote:

> The current font does not seem proportional. Can't we have a default
> monospaced font? I'm curious to know what other thinks about this. The
> current font seems fine as far as look is concerned but it's quite
> traditional to use monospaced fonts when programming.


Elsewhere yes, but not in the Smalltalk tradition. Others are still  
emulating character block generators, but Smalltalk relied on a  
bitmapped display pretty much forever. I find Smalltalk code displayed  
in a character-based terminal emulator style quite ugly.

- Bert -





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