[cfe-dev] [PATCH] Comment parsing: rendering kind field for inline command

Eric Christopher echristo at apple.com
Mon Jul 23 13:27:38 PDT 2012


On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:30 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Bikeshedding: ICR_Monospaced or ICR_FixedWidth instead of ICR_Typewriter, since it's 2012.
>>> 
>>> Less bikeshedding: although we're conditioned to think of code in a monospace font, there's not really a /reason/ for that. (Smalltalk and AppleScript traditionally use non-monospaced fonts for code listings...not that those are necessarily relevant for us.) In HTML this is the (often not observed) difference between <code> and <tt> (like <em> and <i>). In Doxygen and other documentation systems, does "\c" mean "code" or "fixed-width"?
>>> 
>>> (I'm inclined to think "code", and thus go with Doug's original listing, and emit <code> rather than <tt>.)
>> 
>> Doxygen's documentation says "using a typewriter font", and specifically mentions <tt>.
>> 
>> I slightly prefer the term 'Monospaced' to 'Typewriter', but only slightly.
> 
> Thank you Douglas and Jordan for reviews!  Committed r160633 with
> s/Typewriter/Monospaced/.

Monospace is what font people will look for rather than typewriter for sure :)

-eric



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