[Conky-users] The tab variable

[José R. M. <j.r...@gm...>]

Hello.

I am trying to write a nice configuration for conky in my gentoo linux
box, but sometimes I do not fully understand the documentation.

For instance, what is the meaning of the tab variable? The manual page
says that

     tab (width, (start))

where () indicates optional argments, puts a tab of the specified width,
starting from column start. But what does that mean?

What exactly is "a tab"?

What is the "tab width" and the "tab offset"?

It would be nice if there were examples of usage.

Any help?

Romildo