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Gregory Ewing wrote:
> 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.
> 
I don't think proportional spacing is necessarily a problem, as long all
the characters are the same width. :-)

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