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> "The best monospace font for programmers is M+." Seems there's a bit of a grammar issue here, I've fixed it for you: "My favourite monospace font for progra

> "The best monospace font for programmers is M+." Seems there's a bit of a grammar issue here, I've fixed it for you: "My favourite monospace font for programming is M+."

ramblerman 12y ago
It's considered good writing style to write the first sentence, the second is implied. Unless you're presenting historical facts or figures, If every sentence in an article had the author qualify himself with 'imo', 'that's why I think that', etc... it would be a pain to read, and the argument would be a lot weaker.
- nfoz 12y ago
  I don't know, I strongly prefer the explicit "IMO" where correct. Most people do mix up, in their writing, statements of opinion and statements of fact. It's really annoying to leave the burden on the reader to figure out which is meant.
  - voxic11 12y ago
    I don't know, I strongly prefer the explicit "IMO" where correct. IMO most people do mix up, in their writing, statements of opinion and statements of fact. IMO it's really annoying to leave the burden on the reader to figure out which is meant.
    - rubicon33 12y ago
      well played
  - deleted 12y ago
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- CapitalistCartr 12y ago
  The argument would be weaker because it is weak in reality. That is why journalism digs up actual evidence beyond one person's speculation. This article is light on substance; if he'd written it as a personal opinion, it still would have stood to introduce the font. Having said that, the font looks promising, and I'll try it out.
- KhalPanda 12y ago
  It's considered even better writing style to be clear with your titles. When clicking on this, I assumed there would be either; cited facts or a general consensus from a large number of users that this font is "the best". Instead, what this is, is an opinion. > Retina screens make subtle strokes and thinner weights look better, and M+ does that: its thin is ethereal, almost a stick font. Opinion. > It’s much narrower than average, so 80 characters per line can fit in less than half of my screen width - so I can use a vertical split in vim to edit two or more files at a time. My opinion is that you might as well just use a smaller font size if this is an issue. Narrowing makes things harder to read than proportionately down-sizing - to me. > It covers Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Kanji and Kana: beyond that, few monospace fonts will do, though you can always fall back to Arial Unicode. Don't most other mainstream fonts? > It’s clear: 0 is slashed to differentiated it from O, and 1 is easy to tell apart from I, and l. Don't most other mainstream fonts? Edit: Just to be clear - I don't have a downer on the initiative of creating fonts (especially when they're open source and trying to make life easier for programmers), I'm just shooting the breeze over a bit of grammar. I'm sure lots of people will/do like this font. :)
- coldtea 12y ago
  You have it confused. That is when we're talking about clearly personal / subjective issues (e.g "Banana is the best ice cream flavor", "Obama is the perfect president", etc). This is not the case here. An article saying "Medicinal drug X is better" (meant as a personal opinion) is not "good writing style". It's downright misleading. And nobody said he has to do it for "every sentence". A clear "Here's why I think M+ is the best programming font" on the beginning would be enough.
- john_b 12y ago
  It's good writing style in a persuasive essay, but this blog post hardly provides enough support for the first sentence to be called an essay. The only distinguishing fact about the font presented as support is that it's legible while being thin. The other distinguishing feature, narrow lines, is actually a disadvantage on lower resolution screens.
- munificent 12y ago
  > It's considered good writing style to write the first sentence, the second is implied. Passive voice. Considered by whom?
Gracana 12y ago
I think it depends on your audience. If I expect pedantic responses, I might prepend my assertion with "I think."
asdf3asdf 12y ago
Speaking of "grammar", this trend of beginning a sentence with "Seems" instead of "It seems" is getting annoying.
duaneb 12y ago
How is that a grammatical error? The first sentence is well-formed. If you have personal issues with the title, that's something entirely different.
- coldtea 12y ago
  It's called humor.

> "The best monospace font for programmers is M+." Seems there's a bit of a grammar issue here, I've fixed it for you: "My favourite monospace font for programming is M+."

ramblerman 12y ago

It's considered good writing style to write the first sentence, the second is implied. Unless you're presenting historical facts or figures, If every sentence in an article had the author qualify himself with 'imo', 'that's why I think that', etc... it would be a pain to read, and the argument would be a lot weaker.

nfoz 12y ago
I don't know, I strongly prefer the explicit "IMO" where correct. Most people do mix up, in their writing, statements of opinion and statements of fact. It's really annoying to leave the burden on the reader to figure out which is meant.
- voxic11 12y ago
  I don't know, I strongly prefer the explicit "IMO" where correct. IMO most people do mix up, in their writing, statements of opinion and statements of fact. IMO it's really annoying to leave the burden on the reader to figure out which is meant.
  - rubicon33 12y ago
    well played
- deleted 12y ago
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CapitalistCartr 12y ago
The argument would be weaker because it is weak in reality. That is why journalism digs up actual evidence beyond one person's speculation. This article is light on substance; if he'd written it as a personal opinion, it still would have stood to introduce the font. Having said that, the font looks promising, and I'll try it out.
KhalPanda 12y ago
It's considered even better writing style to be clear with your titles. When clicking on this, I assumed there would be either; cited facts or a general consensus from a large number of users that this font is "the best". Instead, what this is, is an opinion. > Retina screens make subtle strokes and thinner weights look better, and M+ does that: its thin is ethereal, almost a stick font. Opinion. > It’s much narrower than average, so 80 characters per line can fit in less than half of my screen width - so I can use a vertical split in vim to edit two or more files at a time. My opinion is that you might as well just use a smaller font size if this is an issue. Narrowing makes things harder to read than proportionately down-sizing - to me. > It covers Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Kanji and Kana: beyond that, few monospace fonts will do, though you can always fall back to Arial Unicode. Don't most other mainstream fonts? > It’s clear: 0 is slashed to differentiated it from O, and 1 is easy to tell apart from I, and l. Don't most other mainstream fonts? Edit: Just to be clear - I don't have a downer on the initiative of creating fonts (especially when they're open source and trying to make life easier for programmers), I'm just shooting the breeze over a bit of grammar. I'm sure lots of people will/do like this font. :)
coldtea 12y ago
You have it confused. That is when we're talking about clearly personal / subjective issues (e.g "Banana is the best ice cream flavor", "Obama is the perfect president", etc). This is not the case here. An article saying "Medicinal drug X is better" (meant as a personal opinion) is not "good writing style". It's downright misleading. And nobody said he has to do it for "every sentence". A clear "Here's why I think M+ is the best programming font" on the beginning would be enough.
john_b 12y ago
It's good writing style in a persuasive essay, but this blog post hardly provides enough support for the first sentence to be called an essay. The only distinguishing fact about the font presented as support is that it's legible while being thin. The other distinguishing feature, narrow lines, is actually a disadvantage on lower resolution screens.
munificent 12y ago
> It's considered good writing style to write the first sentence, the second is implied. Passive voice. Considered by whom?

Gracana 12y ago

I think it depends on your audience. If I expect pedantic responses, I might prepend my assertion with "I think."

asdf3asdf 12y ago

Speaking of "grammar", this trend of beginning a sentence with "Seems" instead of "It seems" is getting annoying.

duaneb 12y ago

How is that a grammatical error? The first sentence is well-formed. If you have personal issues with the title, that's something entirely different.

coldtea 12y ago
It's called humor.