Re: Advice needed: producing tabs in Pandoc output

[John MACFARLANE <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Did you try using the --preserve-tabs option?

+++ Boris Vassilev [Apr 02 16 12:35 ]:
>   Hello,
>   The `	` works if it is in normal markdown. Once you have it inside
>   an HTML <pre> tag, it will get quoted properly so that we actually see
>   "&#9;" and not a tab.
>   So say I use a command line tool, and I want to put the output in an
>   HTML document that I generate with the help of Pandoc. If there are
>   tabs in the output of the command, they will be messed up. I need a
>   <pre> because I want to be able to put more HTML markup inside the
>   <pre>, and this cannot be done with markdown.
>   The thing with tabs is, they are usually align at 8 columns. It is like
>   this on terminals by default, it is like this when shown in a browser.
>   Fun fact: if you do place a tab inside a <pre>, it will be aligned on 8
>   columns if you look at it in the browser, but it will be aligned at 4
>   if you look at the source (this is at least what Firefox does).
>   It was actually very easy to implement my first "solution": replace
>   tabs with an HTML tag, then pass through Pandoc, then replace all
>   occurrences of the tag with a tab. I still wonder if and how it could
>   break.
>   Cheers
>   On Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 3:12:46 PM UTC+3, BPJ wrote:
>
>     Why do you want a literal tab inside a pre tag? What effect do you
>     want to achieve?Perhaps there is a workaround which will achieve the
>     same effect.
>
>   BTW have you tried `&#x09;`?
>
>   /bpj
>
>   lördag 2 april 2016 skrev Boris Vassilev <[1]boris.v...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:
>
>   Hello,
>   first let me apologize for being a pain with this issue. :(
>   I would like to put tab characters inside a <pre> tag in the HTML
>   document produced by Pandoc. I perfectly understand why this doesn't
>   work in the way I attempted it: see [this closed
>   issue]([2]https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2835).
>   Can anyone recommend a work-around? There are at least two
>   possibilities I could come up with (well, variations of the same
>   really).
>   1. Replace tabs with an HTML tag of my choosing, say <actualtab>. Then,
>   after Pandoc, replace this tag with a tab character.
>   2. Replace tabs with a <span> with a class of my choosing, say <span
>   class="actualtab">. Then use CSS to tell the browser to treat it as a
>   tab.
>   Motivation: I am using Pandoc for producing HTML (and eventually LaTeX)
>   from an input format that is a bit more complex than markdown. Pandoc
>   is a great choice because it treats embedded markup transparently. For
>   example, I cannot escape inside code blocks, but I can simply give
>   Pandoc content in a <pre> HTML tag and it comes out (mostly) untouched.
>   Same goes for LaTeX markup.
>   Any suggestions or comments are welcome, even if it goes along the
>   lines of "you are doing the wrong thing".
>   Cheers,
>   Boris
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