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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 st

by saurik 5y 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 https://libzip.org/libzip-discuss/msg00669.html http://svn.saurik.com/repos/menes/trunk/document/interface.tcl 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).

aasasd 5y ago
I see you haven't yet caught the coding version of that. E.g. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oopscode.c http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oopscode.c (From http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html)
- 4gotunameagain 5y ago
  Why would you do this to him!
- alpaca128 5y 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.
thangalin 5y ago
You're definitely not alone. In the following prose, I tried to minimize the number of non-natural hyphens, reduce excessive spaces between words, and ensure that each section fills all three columns entirely: https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

by saurik 5y ago

aasasd 5y ago

I see you haven't yet caught the coding version of that. E.g. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oopscode.c http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oopscode.c (From http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html)

4gotunameagain 5y ago
Why would you do this to him!
alpaca128 5y 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.

thangalin 5y ago

You're definitely not alone. In the following prose, I tried to minimize the number of non-natural hyphens, reduce excessive spaces between words, and ensure that each section fills all three columns entirely: https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf