Well, Bert, I guess that I can survive with the current fonts anyway.
There have been a lot of improvements in this respect lately, which is
a good thing. =)

Ian.

2009/8/22 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
> On 22.08.2009, at 21:39, Ian Trudel wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/22 Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yes, usually but wouldn't it be interesting anyhow considering that we
>> can have anti-aliased monospaced font? For example, I did look quickly
>> into the list provided by Stéphane Rollandin and an anti-aliased
>> Monofur seems not that bad.
>
>
> Sure, you can use it if you like, I'd just not make a non-proportional the
> default.
>
> I use an anti-aliased monospaced font in my terminal every day. And in my C
> editor, too. Same for shell scripts or when I code Python. Even for
> plain-text emails. So it's not that I dislike them in general.
>
> But not for Smalltalk :)
>
> Smalltalk code looks a lot more like natural language text than most other
> programming languages, and the use of a proportional font emphasizes that
> likeness. Besides, if we had a proportional font by default then people
> would soon start aligning things with spaces, which looks ugly to those
> using a proportional font.
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>



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