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Article #35Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder)
From: Dale King
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:49
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 16:49
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"Roedy Green" <roedy@mindprod.com> wrote in message news:kc2bku0b9f9490j6d4c2s0jo8h9dubbvg5@4ax.com... > On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:44:59 -0500, "Dale King" <KingD@TCE.com> wrote > or quoted : > > >I'm sure we all have the experience of doing something like changing a font > >in a word processor which caused the text we aligned with tabs to move. > > People who start using word processors who are used to only > typewriters or text editors get in trouble trying to do their > alignment using spaces. Which has nothing to do with the text you quoted. Note I said text aligned with tabs! > They ignore the proper facilities for aligning proportional text. > Presumably if we started using proportional fonts to convey more > information in programs there would be corresponding tools for > programmer editors. What proper facilities? The only one I can think of in this case would be a table. Aligning with tabs is exactly what I was describing. You change the font size and then things don't line up correctly. > I would hope most of the alignment would be automatic. Programmers > waste far too much time fiddling around with such minutiae an aligning > Java text is some personal anally retentive way. Which was my point that intra-line alignment is not a good idea. Indentation on the other hand is and can be handled with spaces or tabs reliably even if the other end supports different tab stops or font size. But tabs only work if the other end supports tabs. The times that is true are less than 100%. With spaces it is 100%. -- Dale King
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