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@freudenbergs.de:
On 22.08.2009, at 21:39, Ian Trudel wrote:
2009/8/22 Bert Freudenberg bert@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 -