Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Aug 21 21:35:38 EDT 2010

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Roy Smith wrote:

> There was a fling a while ago with typesetting code in proportional 
> spaced type.  I think some of the "Effective C++" series from 
> Addison-Wesley did that.  Yuck.

I don't think proportional spacing is necessarily a
problem, as long as a font is used that makes all
characters clearly distinguishible. Unfortunately,
most of the widely-used sans-serif proportional
fonts fail to do this.

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Greg

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