Re: How to justify a line of text in the GUI?

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Evan Aad wrote:

> Emmanuel, unfortunately you grotesquely misunderstand the
>  gist of my question.
>
> To pick up your example of HTML. Suppose you write an HTML
> document, and the text editor in which you compose it
> displays every other letter in a different size. When viewed
> in a web browser the HTML file displays as intended, the
> problem is with the text editor used to edit the source
> code. You complain about this problem in a mail listing
> dedicated to this text editor. You say you'd like all
> letters of the source code to have a consistent size.
> To which one of the members of the mailing list replies: "It
> appears you want the source code to look like it would in
> a browser, but when viewed in a browser an HTML file is
> never gonna look even remotely the same as the source code,
> and you don't want it to." But this is an absurd reply that
> completely misses the point.

What I mean is they look different because they _are_
different. The editor is optimized, if that is the right word
in the case of HTML :), to produce, edit, and debug source,
while the compiler is intended to translate and transform the
code into something that is useful, the black-boxed end
product, i.e. a displayable, interactive web page in the case
of the browser compiling (or assembling) the HTML source.

Evvan, as long as you regard the webpage and HTML source as
one you won't understand this, I think.

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