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> Given 100% control over typography, how would you format [code] to maximize readability There was a book on this, whose title I'm blanking on. Anyone remembe

> Given 100% control over typography, how would you format [code] to maximize readability There was a book on this, whose title I'm blanking on. Anyone remember? Color wasn't an element, since it was an older book focusing on printing on paper.

marxidad 10y ago
Bjarne Stroustrup's C++ book used a proportional font with tabular spacing.
- abecedarius 10y ago
  So did the book I was thinking of, but it tried more fancier stuff too and iirc reported on some experiments in code reading.
pYQAJ6Zm 10y ago
Kinda rings a bell for me, although not from a book, but some LaTeX manual. Maybe this helps: http://tug.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/algorithm2e/doc/algorithm2e.pdf http://tug.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/algorithm2e/doc/alg...
- abecedarius 10y ago
  That wasn't it, though that looks relevant for anyone thinking of working on this problem. Thanks for the pointer.