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Re:Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no by George83728 on Saturday May 13, 2023 @08:01AM (#35927545)
The only people I've ever seen or heard of using proportional fonts for programming were utterly clueless freshmen newbs who mistook MS Word for a text editor...
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Re:Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no by tnzk on Saturday May 13, 2023 @08:18AM (#35927656)
Flash also come with a proportional font by default in the ActionScript editor if I remember correctly. I believe Adobe has changed its mind for other products with scripting support.
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Re:Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no by f1shy on Saturday May 13, 2023 @10:09AM (#35928549)
Caution: Stroustrup uses proportional fonts for snippets in the book
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Re:Ligatures in programming fonts: hell no by aendruk on Saturday May 13, 2023 @02:24PM (#35931145)
I use proportional Iosevka for most text editing, and just make exceptions per-language, e.g. for popular Ruby coding styles or Markdown tables.
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