From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:24:04 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] handling tabs in text frames In-Reply-To: <509071940708261815k7002323aw1db4ee6e32f43a0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: b0bf10f4-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > 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 one reads books in fixed-pitch type. just because teletypes did it, isn't a compelling reason to continue the tradition on bit-mapped displays. part of the reason that 8-space-width tabs (or whatever) seem wide with a fixed-pitch font is that fixed-pitch fonts have to squeeze `W' into the same space as `i.' - erik