1 Jun
2001
1 Jun
'01
6:46 a.m.
2) no descenders?
--Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: HTML source code?? (was: Call for Resources for CDC
blurred
> 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, 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(a)xenosoft.com