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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c689b55786a9f2bd X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!gegeweb.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: for S'Image use Func?? Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:45:42 +0200 Organization: Ada At Home Message-ID: References: <4be417b4$0$6992$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <1qcb6z4i20dyb.1dz2hd4c0vx69.dlg@40tude.net> <1n2eq40w8cao1.vk0r496ugxwq.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: EFpv4lnpRyjbMhM0po550g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.53 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11495 Date: 2010-05-11T17:45:42+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 11 May 2010 17:03:28 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:27:27 -0400, Robert A Duff wrote: > >> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 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 an= y = formatting language applicable to typical application source ? This woul= d = 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 i= s = to be applied ; which in turn would require either something embedded in= = the language to allow that or some complicated external third files whic= h = would try to keep track of some (many) marks in the source while you edi= t = it. Not good, ... not portable. There is still a last other way : editor specific formating. Some do tha= t, = 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 =E2=80= =9Cin = flow=E2=80=9D. Computer language are not most of time. This is not a matter of being old or a matter of fashion. There is no re= al = 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. -- = pragma Asset ? Is that true ? Waaww... great