On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:41:52 +0200 Piotr Fusik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I repeat it for the third time: use tabs in a way that their size >doesn't matter. Thats impossible, ' cause therefore the size tab has to be spezified inside the fonts. That means there has to be something like an RFC which says: We expect the tab char size to be n-times the size of the space character in y-Direction. Or: We expect the tab size to be 1cm. But that will contradict the concept of tabstop as an variable absolute position marker and a tabchar as a command 'go to the next tabstop and write down from there. As most GUIs nowadays allows to transform something like global koordinates, which depends on output media size and resolution, into local pixelkoordinates, it would be the most consequent way to spezify tabstops via an globalpositioning parameter like it is in word-processing-systems. >From the concepts point of view, there is no, really no, dependency between tabs(tops) and spaces. Additional, there is no algorithm possible to transform tabs into spaces an vice versa. >I'm in a closed source project where you can find tabs in some files, >spaces in other and a mix of tabs and spaces in some other. It might be a solution to run something called pretty printer over all that files, to have a consistent use of tabs and other codingstyle guidelines, as it can be used in some codedatabases and Revision-Control-Systems. For (x)html you can use tidy. -- Ervin Peters Weimar, Germany _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
