Tabbing/Spaces

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Sat Jan 20 11:44:12 EST 2001


In article <slrn96ipbi.oul.quinn at groat.ugcs.caltech.edu>,
Quinn Dunkan <quinn at groat.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>On 19 Jan 2001 16:17:13 -0800, Johann Hibschman <johann at physics.berkeley.edu>
>wrote:
>>
>>Shrug.  Whatever suits you best, I guess.  I just hate getting all-tab
>>code, since then I have to re-indent it for it to be readable.
>>All-space code, on the other hand, always looks fine.
>
>Unless you use proportional fonts.

To expand on Alex's comment, proportional fonts are fine unless you've
also got a setup that tries to do justification -- but that would be a
problem with monospaced fonts, too.  The width of a space in a
non-justified proportional font is fixed.
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