On 06.04.2013 17:20, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
Historically, software and hardware which assigns a meaning to a tab
character has come in two flavours:
1. Tab stops are every 8 columns; this cannot be changed.
2. Tab stops are configurable, defaulting to every 8 columns.
3. Tab stops are measured in something other than characters.
With variable-width fonts, it's illogical to set tab stops in
characters. DeScribe Word Processor defined them in centimeters, way
back in the early... well, I didn't meet it till the 90s, but I don't
know how long it had been around before that.
Yes, but systems with variable-width fonts do not make the default for
the tab size now.
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