On Sunday 31 January 2010, Kad Mann wrote: > Doriano Blengino wrote: > > > A tab width is normally eight spaces > > Every single one of my cites say you're completely wrong. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key > www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/268538/tab-versus-space-indentation-in-c > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/119562/tabs-versus-spaces-in-python-programming > http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_spaces_is_a_tab > http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_and_how_do_you_indent_to_begin_a_paragraph > http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/mail-archive/msg00000.html > > Where is your single cite saying you are right?
here??? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_key :) ASCII and EBCDIC paragraph Instead it was rather quickly replaced with fixed tab stops, at every multiple of 8 characters horizontally and every 6 lines vertically, so they simply became a form of data compression, since a printing program could easily add the necessary spaces to move to any position wanted on a form. The vertical size was chosen to be 1 inch. It is unclear why the 8-character horizontal size was chosen, as 5 characters, half inch in a typical printer at that time, was much more popular at that time as a paragraph indentation. the 5 characters has to do with the 10 characters/inch teletype character set in the matrix impact printers at that time (around 1982) (i.e. Epson mx80/fx80/fx100 use it) > > I have 824,000+ more references to fall back on, but I'm sure you'll get the > idea. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation > Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business > Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts > Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user > Just possible info. Like your discus with oponent :) Best regards, Ron_1st -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user