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Comment by saurik

5 years ago

OMG I didn't realize other people had this affliction (I consider it a horrible OCD-like issue as I find myself often unable to send messages in editors that start to give me control over "squareness"): all of my tweets are the maximum length, all of my git commit messages are 50 characters, I gave a text-heavy talk a few years ago in a monospace font so every slide had a ton of bullet points that were all the same number of characters, and I often write messages where every line is the same length (I have linked a couple examples that are easy for me to link to off the top of my head).

https://libzip.org/libzip-discuss/msg00669.html

http://svn.saurik.com/repos/menes/trunk/document/interface.t...

I have never done this to anything as long as that manual (partly as I simply both don't let myself type things that are that long in a monospace presentation font and also try very hard to resist the temptation to ever, under any circumstance, manually word wrap text).

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aasasd  5 years ago

I see you haven't yet caught the coding version of that.

E.g. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oopscode.c

(From http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html)

  • alpaca128  5 years ago

    Impressive, but very difficult to read in some places. I am definitely a fan of aligning similar lines, from equal signs to columns of numbers and variables; in the right dosage I find it helpful for readability, but your linked example also shows the problems when you overdo it.

    I think I should be glad that I rarely write long texts in monospaced fonts. I can't unsee that perfectly aligned game guide.