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Ed Leafe wrote:

> I had read about a developer who switched to using proportional fonts for
> coding, and somewhat skeptically, tried it out. After a day or so it
> stopped looking strange, and after a week it seemed so much easier to
> read.

By my (limited) experience with proportional fonts, they can be useful only 
with something like elastic tabstops[0]. But, as a general rule, I simply 
found more "squared" to just use a fixed-width font.


[0] http://nickgravgaard.com/elastictabstops/

-- 
ZeD