On Tue, Apr 7, 2009, Patrick McCarty <pnor...@gmail.com> said: >> Is there an easy way to address this?
use a programming editor. tabs were invented at a time when fixed-width was the norm, high-speed printers and teletypes had no other way to put ink on paper. back then, the tab stops were 8 chars apart. Programmers today more often use stops at 4 characters, however todays fonts thro a monkey wrench into all this with proportional fonts. Programming editors are available for both mac and windoze systems, if you dont have one available try a normal text processor and use a mono-spaced font. As to LY not accepting tabs, thats a shame, tabs should be treated as white space, along with <bel> <nul> <lf> <VT> and other now-disused characters from the days of teletypes which sometimes find their way into ascii files from odd unix and dos systems; this is done in the postscript language. Except perhaps in lyrics, where they might well be used to demarcate syllables. > I don't know what editor you're using, but with Vim you can search for > `\t' to find them. many editors will have search and replace, some even have grep-like capabilitys. > I've struggled with this in the past until I realized that a normal > tab is equivalent to *eight* spaces. not exactly, each tab is one to 8 spaces, enough to get up to the next tab stop; unless the editor that created the document was set so that tabs are 4 spaces of course, in which case it is 1-4 spaces. -- Dana Emery _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
