[Po4a-devel]Canonizing tabs

[Nicolas François]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:02:40AM +0100, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Nicolas François wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:56:37PM +0100, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
> >>+    $text =~ s/\t/  /gm;
> >
> >Note that this change all tabs, not only trailing and leading tabs.
> 
> When canonizing, all the newlines disappear, and all the tabs get to th=
e 
> middle of the line.

That's right. 

> Is there some format that uses tabs in the middle of a 
> string for some function?

The only thing I could imagine is:

.SH 1\tfoo
.SH 10\tbar

And the author willing to align foo and bar. (I admit this would be a
quite buggy man page)

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Nekral