Re: [9fans] handling tabs in text frames

["Anthony Sorace" <anothy@gmail.com>]

On 8/26/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > i agree tab handling is imperfect and often frustrating
>> (especially when working with people who code in
>> variable-width fonts, which, personally, still seems a bit
>> odd to me) [...]
>
> why?

no good reason. intellectually, i entirely agree with your arguments.
emotionally, however, i just still find it jarring. much less so than
i did even a few years ago (thanks, like uriel says, to acme)

i'm less concerned about existing text getting messed up, provided you
do something sensible (read: very much like what is done today) with
the common case of beginning a paragraph with a tab. beyond that,
aligning tabs is already wrong frequently enough when dealing with
text from one environment in even a slightly different one that i
don't think the new marginal incorrect cases would be too bad.