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Proportional font IDE

I would really like to see a proportional font IDE, even if I have to build it myself (perhaps as an extension to Visual Studio). What I basically mean is MS Word style editing of code that sort of looks like the typographical style in The C++ Programming Language book.

I want to set tab stops for my indents and lining up function signatures and rows of assignment statements, which could be specified in points instead of fixed character positions. I would also like bold and italics. Various font sizes and even style sheets would be cool.

Has anyone seen anything like this out there or know the best way to start building one?

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Mark Cidade Avatar asked Aug 18 '08 12:08

Mark Cidade


2 Answers

I'd still like to see a popular editor or IDE implement elastic tabstops.

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Sören Kuklau Avatar answered Nov 13 '22 12:11

Sören Kuklau


Thinking with Style suggests to use your favorite text-manipulation software like Word or Writer. Create your programme code in rich XML and extract the compiler-relevant sections with XSLT. The "Office" software will provide all advanced text-manipulation and formatting features.

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Andreas Scherer Avatar answered Nov 13 '22 14:11

Andreas Scherer