On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:29:22 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: > >... [Tabs'] effects depend upon local tab settings, and many >implementations disambiguate them by replacing them with blanks of >currently equivalent effect in saved/stored files. > Thereby sacrificing some small economy of storage. There are even better arguments for deferring the disambiguation, such as:
o Use of tabs as field separators in exported data bases. o Rendering in proportional-spaced fonts, particularly when the choice of font ls left to the viewer. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
