markupless tables

[A. Pagaltzis]

* Fletcher T. Penney <fletcher at alumni.duke.edu> [2005-12-09 15:20]:

> Is there  truly a standard conversion (e.g. 4 spaces equals 1

> tab) to allow you to compare rows?


Well, Markdown already has rules that pay attention to tabs, so
its own conventions would be what counts here, and Markdown.pl
ships with `$g_tab_width` set to 4.

(Traditionally tabs are 8 places wide. I suspect that that being
way too much is what led to the abominable mixed tabs+spaces
indentation style that is so prevalent in the C world.)

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>