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Re: [PATCH] howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII art

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DWDirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de>
Date
Jul 16, 2013, 08:24 UTC
Message-ID
<20130716082413.GA27283@bottich>
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On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 03:00:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit@t-online.de> writes:
> 
> > Keep the sketch aligned independent of the tabstop width used.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> This is a source text to be formatted into HTML, isn't it?
> 
> In our sources, a HT indents to multiple of 8 columns.  As long as
> the output HTML produced from the source can be seen on a terminal
> with any tab-width correctly, I do not see any reason to apply this
> patch.
> 
> Am I missing something???
>

Those text files are installed as documentation (at least on my distribution). They have a *.txt suffix, which tells me that they are meant to be read. If those would ever be opened with a text editor where the user has set the default tabstop width to something other than 8 it would teach something nonsensical. Not to mention if those files would have been printed with the wrong setting.

Why would you want to limit those files to be source for HTML only?
The HTML after this patch is still fine.
-- 
Cheers,
  Dirk
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  1. howto: Use all-space indentation in ASCII artDirk Wallenstein, Jul 15, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 15, 2013
  3. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  4. Junio C HamanoJul 16, 2013
  5. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  6. 0/2 Remove tabs from howto documentsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  7. Fredrik GustafssonJul 31, 2013
  8. Jonathan NiederJul 16, 2013
  9. Dirk WallensteinJul 16, 2013
  10. A Large Angry SCMJul 16, 2013
  11. 1/2 howto: Suppress indentation with tabsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  12. 2/2 howto: Eliminate all tabsDirk Wallenstein, Jul 31, 2013
  13. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2013
  14. Dirk WallensteinJul 31, 2013
  15. Piotr KrukowieckiAug 3, 2013
  16. Junio C HamanoAug 5, 2013

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