Re: misc/39121

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 08:40:02PM +0000, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
 > From: "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: misc/39121
 > Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:35:36 +0400
 > 
 >  I'm strongly against this.  I posit that current layout is much better
 >  for a typical use case when you only need to operate in a single base.
 >  
 >  I find the proposed layout illogically formatted, verbose and hard to
 >  read.

The legibility can be improved a good bit by tinkering with the
horizontal spacing and the column ordering, e.g. like this:

nul    0  00  000         32  20  040     @   64  40  100     `    96  60  140 
soh    1  01  001     !   33  21  041     A   65  41  101     a    97  61  141 
stx    2  02  002     "   34  22  042     B   66  42  102     b    98  62  142 
etx    3  03  003     #   35  23  043     C   67  43  103     c    99  63  143 
eot    4  04  004     $   36  24  044     D   68  44  104     d   100  64  144 
enq    5  05  005     %   37  25  045     E   69  45  105     e   101  65  145 
ack    6  06  006     &   38  26  046     F   70  46  106     f   102  66  146 
bel    7  07  007     '   39  27  047     G   71  47  107     g   103  67  147 
bs     8  08  010     (   40  28  050     H   72  48  110     h   104  68  150 
ht     9  09  011     )   41  29  051     I   73  49  111     i   105  69  151 
nl    10  0a  012     *   42  2a  052     J   74  4a  112     j   106  6a  152 

However, I'm not convinced it's an improvement either, plus that's too
wide for nroff to generate successfully.

I do think though that maybe the tables in the existing page should be
flipped so they read down instead of across. (And, ideally they should
be set in tbl rather than being preformatted fixed-width text.)

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost