Re: [DejaVu-fonts] Variable Width Programming Font

[Eoghan M. <eo...@ge...>]

Thanks, got it.  I'd say that is something that couldn't be solved in the
font.  I think that would be left to a variable-width-aware code formatter
in the ide/editor to stretch the 7 spaces (in this case) to the appropriate
width.
We could help by having a consistent width for punctuation glyphs such as
commas, periods and parentheses.
If spaces were that width you could have all the numbers lined up by writing
your example as:

list = (
         12
       , 24
       , 18
       )

On 1 June 2011 13:07, David Sankel <ca...@gm...> wrote:
> list = ( 12
>        , 24
>        , 18
>        )
>
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Eoghan Murray <eo...@ge...> wrote:
>>
>> Could you post an example of code that manifests this problem?  I don't
>> think I understand it!
>> I noticed people mentioning it
>> here: http://m-mz.posterous.com/programming-with-proportional  (which I
just
>> came across).
>> Eoghan
>>
>> On 29 May 2011 22:54, David Sankel <ca...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd be interested. How do you handle the vertical alignment problem?
>>> David
>>>
>>> 2011/5/29 Eoghan Murray <eo...@ge...>
>>>>
>>>> I've been using DejaVu Mono for programming for a while but recently
got
>>>> interested in using variable width fonts for source code.
>>>>
>>>> The normal DejaVu Sans Serif looks fine, but there are a few tweaks
that
>>>> could be made to better fit the purpose.  I've hacked the following
changes
>>>> over the last few days:
>>>>
>>>> - moved right curly brace to be flush with left margin
>>>>
>>>> - expanded space character
>>>>
>>>> - expanded space around dot
>>>>
>>>> - expanded space around double quotes to distinguish from consecutive
>>>> single quotes
>>>>
>>>> - narrowed left and greater than/less than signs
>>>>
>>>> Would there be any appetite for a new font variant called 'DejaVu
>>>> Variable Programming' ?
>>>>
>>>> If so I'll make these changes properly and make them available.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>>
>>>> Eoghan Murray
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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