Re: <PRE tab-width=4>

Paul Grosso (pbg@texcel.no)
Fri, 27 Jan 95 09:02:46 EST

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> From: "Dave Raggett" <dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
>
> > You might consider a TABSTOPS attribute too:
>
> > <!attlist pre
> > -- ... other attributes --
> > tabwidth NUMBER #IMPLIED
> > tabstops NUMBERS #IMPLIED
> >
>
> Do we really want to encourage people to use tab chars in PRE text?

No! Thank you, Dave, for saying what I was thinking. The entire
concept of "tabbing" is a throw back to typewriters. I don't feel
tabbing has any place in a proportional font/spacing world, much
less a bit mapped world. Alignment is a concept, and so are tables,
but "tab characters" are not.

paul

Paul Grosso
VP Research Chief Technical Officer
ArborText, Inc. SGML Open

Email: paul@arbortext.com
or pbg@texcel.no

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