HTML source code?? (was: Call for Resources for CDC

From: Michael Passer <mwp_at_acm.org>
Date: Fri Jun 1 13:46:15 2001

2) no descenders?

--Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: HTML source code?? (was: Call for Resources for CDC


> > My favourite format for source code listings was the one adopted by Home
> > Computer Magazine (formerly 99'er) shortly before they folded. It
featured
> > a nice, dark fixed font, listings for each program were continuous (not
> > split into dozens of fragments throughout the magazine), and there were
> > faint background lines showing the columns - very nice for counting
spaces.
> > I never saw another magazine that had anything remotely as nice.
>
> Nice
>
> > Cheers,
> > Mark (whose eyesight has never fully recovered from typing in tiny,
blurred
> > listings 20 years ago).
>
> Aha! It must be proportional fonts in source code that have caused my
> eyes to not be as good as they were when I was 20!
>
>
> OB_CC_Trivia: 1) Was the font of the IBM PC with or without serifs? (90%
> answer incorrectly)
> 2) What was the primary complaint (other than not being enabled) about
> the lower case in the original models of the TRS-80?
>
> --
> Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
>
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