From: Alan G I. <ai...@am...> - 2009-09-20 23:07:03
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> On 18.09.09, Alan G Isaac wrote: >> Sorry but I was just reminded: literal inclusions >> currently retain literal tabs. I believe this is >> considered a bug: the tabs are intended to be replaced >> by a specified number of space characters. Am I right? On 9/20/2009 4:51 PM, G. Milde wrote: > I do not know. What does the documentation tell about this? I'm pretty sure that David Goodger said that docutils output should not include any literal tabs. This is implicit in the tab-width option, which currently does not affect literal inclusions. It is implicit in the todo list that it should affect literal inclusions. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/dev/todo.txt How about changing ``tab-width`` before an ``include`` directive though? Or should ``include`` rather grow a ``tab-width`` option? For literal inclusions, my ideal solution would be to have a tab-width option and to keep literal tabs unless this option was used. But my impression was that David was unwilling to promise literal tabs even for literal inclusions and that the current preservation of literal tabs was a bug. (Apologies if I have this wrong.) Alan Isaac |