Re: ACM Ada Letters

From: Marin David Condic (nobody_at_noplace.com)
Date: 11/09/03 

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2003 12:40:01 GMT

Sure, I could always get some form of formatting for publication. Either
A) I laboriously translate my Ada code via a word processor and tab
stops and whatever else I may need or B) I laboriously write a program
to reformat it into Postscript or something else that can be sucked up
by some publishing tool while preserving my monospace alignment. (Still
doesn't solve the problem of possibly wanting to make things align
within identifiers, but perhaps that is not really necessary.)

The question is "How do I get that within my Ada code such that its
still a compilable thing and is represented consistently by various
IDEs?" I thought the idea was to have proportional fonts as part of the
programming ritual and the objection was that monospace fonts make it
easy to format code. If its handled all through the editor via some
algorithm, it probably won't look the same across editors. If it is
handled by embedding some formatting information in the code, it would
have to be something standard so compilers could ignore it and all
editors could handle it the same.

MDC

Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>
> You produce a piece of formatted code using a computer.
> A computer programm will easily transform text written
> in one formal language into a text written in another formal
> language used in typesetting, be that RTF, GEN, XML, TeX,
> or whatever :-)
>
> Georg 

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