Tom Lane wrote: > Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Please don't put tabs in SGML files. > > That's a new one on me. Why should we avoid tabs? The existing > files are certainly full of them.
Those are just the files that I haven't edited recently and gave the old "M-x untabify" treatment... I ask that tabs be avoided for two reasons: One, we use a one-character indentation in the source, so it's no use that only every 8th indentation level is made by a tab, it's just annoying when you're editing. (The only other indentation scheme for SGML/XML that I see used is two spaces, so I don't think going to 4 or 8 spaces is in question.) Two, when rendering, the tabs have questionable meaning. In HTML they are treated like a single space, who knows what they mean in a PDF with variable width fonts. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly