title: Proportional font IDE
body: <p>I would really like to see a proportional font IDE, even if I have to build it myself (perhaps as an extension to Visual Studio). What I basically mean is MS Word style editing of code that sort of looks like the typographical style in <a href="http://www.research.att.com/~bs/3rd.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The C++ Programming Language book</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I want to set tab stops for my indents and lining up function signatures and rows of assignment statements,  which could be specified in points instead of fixed character positions. I would also like bold and italics. Various font sizes and even style sheets would be cool.</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone seen anything like this out there or know the best way to start building one?</p>