- From: Stuart Young <nakor@glasswings.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 20:54:32 +1000 (EST)
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > At 3:16p +0100 09/23/96, Peter Flynn wrote: > > >Isn't this what <PRE> is all about? > > > > When I wrote "transmitting source code", what I really meant was > > "transmitting *pretty-printed* source code". (Sorry I left that out.) > > > ><pre> does this as far as I know. Or did you mean "source code > >pretty-printed and designed to be displayed in a proportional font"? > > Yes; proportional fonts do aid in prettifying; boldfacing and italicizing > as well. I personally would NEVER want to see source code in a proportional font. Ever seen Assembler source printed in a proportional font? It loses all the hard-formatting it has, and simply makes something harder to understand. Some constructs are 'better' in a mono-spaced font. However, wether it's legal to use <I>, <B> or the like in a <PRE> block is another matter, as I can DEFINATELY see a use for Italics and Bold text in this sort of way. /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Stuart Young (aka Cefiar) - You may be human, but you're still animals! | | nakor@glasswings.com.au - Man is territorial. Violence is our response. | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/
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