On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Carl D. Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> 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. > We're free to choose whatever programming conventions we want for our source > code. I don't think it is a standard, but I would not mind making it a standard. Han-Wen (being trained to avoid tabs during daytime) -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - han...@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
