From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,de0abe9655235740 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-09 04:40:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3FAE359C.4080705@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACM Ada Letters References: <1065708924.347689@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <8pWdnd8im8ToEzeiRVn-iw@gbronline.com> <3FAB95B6.9070008@noplace.com> <3FACE44D.2050500@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 12:40:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.22.31 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1068381601 209.165.22.31 (Sun, 09 Nov 2003 07:40:01 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 07:40:01 EST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2278 Date: 2003-11-09T12:40:01+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Trying is the first step towards failure." -- Homer Simpson ======================================================================