On 8/26/07, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i agree tab handling is imperfect and often frustrating >> (especially when working with people who code in >> variable-width fonts, which, personally, still seems a bit >> odd to me) [...] > > why?
no good reason. intellectually, i entirely agree with your arguments. emotionally, however, i just still find it jarring. much less so than i did even a few years ago (thanks, like uriel says, to acme) i'm less concerned about existing text getting messed up, provided you do something sensible (read: very much like what is done today) with the common case of beginning a paragraph with a tab. beyond that, aligning tabs is already wrong frequently enough when dealing with text from one environment in even a slightly different one that i don't think the new marginal incorrect cases would be too bad.
