Re: for S'Image use Func??

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 11 May 2010 17:03:28 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:

> On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:27:27 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote:
>
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>>
>>> Nobody want to see fixed font output.
>>
>>> Only if the output is improperly formatted. There is no application for
>>> fixed point fonts other than for source code of a machine language.
>>
>> Hmm.  Why do you exempt "source code" from your "Nobody..." above?
>
> I feel it difficult to read sources in proportional font. Maybe I am
> getting too old...
A way to try to handle this question may be this one : could their be any  
formatting language applicable to typical application source ? This would  
require to have two sides, one for the formatting and one for the text.  
This would not be applicable, this would clutter the application source  
too much.

The only thing which is near to that, is automatic formating (no perfect  
by the way). And how it does formatting ? ... with blanks, tabs and new  
line. So back to the initial point.

Could the automatic formating tool use other things to render source  
layout ? This would require either, again to have the formating language  
embedded in the source (not acceptable as suggested above) or to have a  
way to link/anchor formating instruction to each part of the source it is  
to be applied ; which in turn would require either something embedded in  
the language to allow that or some complicated external third files which  
would try to keep track of some (many) marks in the source while you edit  
it. Not good, ... not portable.

There is still a last other way : editor specific formating. Some do that,  
except that it goes wrong as soon as you switch to another editor, and  
others are unlikely to use the same editor as yours.

Natural language texts did not have the same requirement, they are “in  
flow”. Computer language are not most of time.

This is not a matter of being old or a matter of fashion. There is no real  
other way of doing formating with this special kind of texts. Some one  
already try to imagine new ways for that, but either failed or just  
proposed editor specific formating.

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