> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:16:01 +0000 > From: Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> > > In the info file I read the following about `@example`. > > Caution: Do not use tabs in the lines of an example! (Or > anywhere else in Texinfo, except in verbatim environments.) TeX > treats tabs as single spaces, and that is not what they look > like. > > However, this is not fully correct. Consider the following input > file. > > ``` > \input texinfo > > @example > no leading space > leading tab another tab > eight leading spaces > @end example > > @bye > ``` > > If processed with `texi2pdf`, the leading tab vanishes completely (as > shown in the image); it is not treated as a single space.
Where does it say that _every_ tab is treated as a single space?
