From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] handling tabs in text frames
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:15:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <72b4f68236adde2ec3716246298389ec@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40708261333k4b5c5a38me30920ef188c0f06@mail.gmail.com>
> Hi,
>
> I'm considering an alternative to the current tab behaviour in text frames.
> I'm tired of adding/removing tabs to keep adt declarations aligned, and I think
> the machine should do it, not me. Thus, for a experimental implementation
> for text frames I'm playing with now, I plan
> to implement tab handling as follows:
i think it will be hard to make other formatting work. sometimes two tabs mean
that things didn't quite line up with one tab. sometimes they mean skip a field.
it's hard being incompatable. even when it's better. maybe hueristics will be
"good enough".
- erik
p.s. tabs are 8 spaces. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-26 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-26 20:33 Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-08-26 21:15 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-08-27 1:15 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-08-27 1:24 ` erik quanstrom
2007-08-27 1:38 ` Uriel
2007-08-27 2:54 ` Anthony Sorace
2007-08-27 3:58 ` lucio
2007-09-03 15:26 ` y i y u s
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