- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 00:20:21 -0400
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 19:03 -0700, fantasai wrote: > Given that current behavior in pretty much every tool I've ever used > is to define tabs as exact multiples of the space character, regardless > of whether a monospace or proportional font is used, I think this would > be a bad change to make. Maybe you never used troff :-) A common default space size is one en, so it is indeed often the case that you can think of it either way. I agree that one en would make much more sense for tab stops. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml
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