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I agree about monospaced text in code editing. I was thinking about uses such as code excerpts in literature (class names, inline bash commands, etc). Monospaced fonts[1] plays a major role in helping reading and understanding the content. This is more than a stylistic choice.

[1] actually the font doesn't need to be monospaced, but it must be very different than the font used for main copy.

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While in some cases the font doesn't necessary need to be monospaced, some documents might require that a monospaced font is used, so it should be monospaced anyways. Although, as you say, different from the main copy; so if all of the text is monospaced, there should be some way to distinguish it, such as by selecting a different monospaced font, or displaying it with a different colour.

(One case where a monospace font is required is if you are automatically including text from another document which uses plain text format; there is no way to determine what format is needed, but monospace will always work.)

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