Re: wrapping behavior
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net> writes:
Well, there is such a thing as text which *should* be displayed in a
monospaced font, e.g. the output from "ls -l", ps, netstat, od etc,
ASCII-art, "screen dumps" from curses programs. While the use of
proportionally-spaced text may be increasing, monospaced text is
definitely here to stay.
Also note that many Asian languages, with Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean as ideal examples, prefer monospaced characters. There are
very strict rules for typesetting and even ordinary computer display
of CJK text, and these require either that everything be monospaced or
that very complex and hard to apply kerning be done to only certain
classes of characters (punctuation, kana, roomaji, etc). Also
word-wrapping is a very touchy subject in CJK text as
therearenospacesbetweenwordswhichcanconfusetradtionalwordwrappingalgorithms.
(Try M-q'ing that.) Also, there are no hyphenations in CJK text
either (at least none that I've ever heard of).
Suffice to say that although many people like antialiased text and
proportional fonts, in the text editing biz there's very little
incentive to dispose of monospace text.
'james
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