Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwael...@jacobs-university.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 04:28:18PM +0100, Robert Wilton wrote:
> > My interpretation:
> > 
> > Option 2 is to disallow tabs in the output, but leave it to the
> > implementation to decide how to handle tabs in the input document, so a
> > script would be allowed to do a, b, or c.
> > 
> > Just supporting "option 2(a)" is the same as "option 1":
> > 
> >   1) RFC disallows TABS in both the source-input and folded-output.
> >      ***This is what we currently have***
> > 
> > Perhaps you mean that you prefer option 1?
> >
> 
> 1) or 2a) since 2b) and 2c) are not implementable in tools that are
> detached from the author and his/her editor and they will ultimately
> require to carry some metadata around and this means additional
> complexity for no real gain since the output has no TABs anyway.

I agree.  I prefer option 1.  If you do have tabs in your input,
simply translate them before running the folding algorithm.





/martin

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