Re: Setting tab size in PRE

John Penix wrote:
> 
> Has anyone suggested a way to set the tab size inside PRE.  I found
> nothing in the archive.  The spec says that the tab size is 8 and
> that's that.  It also makes the comment that tabs should not be
> documents, which seems to do against the whole preformatted concept.
> Anyway, I just thought I would throw this suggestion out on the floor.
> I do not see why it would cause any conflicting interactions with
> other things, but I'm not intimate with brouser implementation.

Unaware browsers would still be using 8 as the tab size ... so none of the
text carefully tabbed out by the author would be aligned properly any
more.

Is this really what you want?

-- 
Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
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Received on Saturday, 15 June 1996 17:24:17 UTC