Comment by pwdisswordfishy

> Preserves the full 80 character width without line-wrapping, which destroys readability

How line wrapping interacts with readability is for the reader software to worry about, not the control-freak author. Line length higher than the device width can handle can be even worse for readability than lines wrapped in the wrong places. It's one of the reasons I loathe PDFs.

> Preserves a good coding font, so it doesn't come out as some hairline-width Courier on the other end

If the reader wants to have their code in hairline-width Courier, that's their right. It's not for the control-freak with awful taste in fonts to decide.

> Preserves syntax highlighting, very helpful

Forces a particular style of syntax highlighting upon the reader without giving them an easy recourse to change it. No thanks.

> Guarantees monospace, so tabular data doesn't get all misaligned

The closest thing to a decent argument. Except pretty much any text input that accepts embedded images will usually also provide a monospace formatting option, so there is no need to screenshot text here either.