On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 23:24:49 +1100 John Gardner <gardnerjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> nobody in their right mind would deliberately write source-code in a > proportional typeface, so we can trust the use of Georgia or > Helvetica to indicate body text?stuff for reading and styling. The C++ Annotated Reference Manual sets source code in proportional font. Stroustrup discusses his rationale in the introduction. I'm not sure that affects your argument of how easy our existing manpages are to read or automatically convert, but the ARM is good evidence that proportional fonts make perfectly readable -- maybe more readable -- source code. The widespread use of monospace fonts to represent source code is more likely the result of cargo-cult typography and lack of tooling, witness the near disappearance of vgrind. --jkl
