Re: ACM Ada Letters

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Sure, I could always get some form of formatting for publication. Either 
A) I laboriously translate my Ada code via a word processor and tab 
stops and whatever else I may need or B) I laboriously write a program 
to reformat it into Postscript or something else that can be sucked up 
by some publishing tool while preserving my monospace alignment. (Still 
doesn't solve the problem of possibly wanting to make things align 
within identifiers, but perhaps that is not really necessary.)

The question is "How do I get that within my Ada code such that its 
still a compilable thing and is represented consistently by various 
IDEs?" I thought the idea was to have proportional fonts as part of the 
programming ritual and the objection was that monospace fonts make it 
easy to format code. If its handled all through the editor via some 
algorithm, it probably won't look the same across editors. If it is 
handled by embedding some formatting information in the code, it would 
have to be something standard so compilers could ignore it and all 
editors could handle it the same.

MDC


Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
> You produce a piece of formatted code using a computer.
> A computer programm will easily transform text written
> in one formal language into a text written in another formal
> language used in typesetting, be that RTF, GEN, XML, TeX,
> or whatever :-)
> 
> Georg


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