Re: Advice needed: producing tabs in Pandoc output

[Boris Vassilev <boris.vassilev-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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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 <boris.v...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org 
> <javascript:>>:
>
>> 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](
>> 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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