On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 17:18 -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: > > > On 4/7/09 4:17 PM, "dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us" <dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us> > wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > LilyPond accepts tabs just fine; they're whitespace. If you want to put tab > characters in your LilyPond source you can do so. > > Programming standards for LilyPond call for avoiding the tab character.
Is this written down somewhere? I have nothing against it, but it seems to be the opposite of what is actually used, at least in the C++ code. The C++ code uses tabs with a tabstop of 8 characters. Since the default indent is 2 characters, it requires a mix of tabs and spaces to indent correctly. This seems pretty complicated to me, but I think it's the emacs default style. Joe _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
