Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [art] New RFCs text formatting

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Tue, 03 December 2019 16:36 UTC

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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 11:36:10 -0500
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [art] New RFCs text formatting
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--On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 17:34 +0100 Carsten Bormann
<cabo@tzi.org> wrote:

> On Dec 3, 2019, at 17:27, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
> wrote:
>> 
>> Helpful but, if we are concerned about what the final output
>> looks like, wouldn't it be easier to have authors just convert
>> HT to the widths they prefer and to modify the nits checker to
>> notice their presence?  And for the RFC Editor to be sure that
>> none of them make it into final output?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> It seems to me Julian's code was simply providing the error
> message in the form of a red U+2409 «␉», so you can locate
> the HT if you don't have an appropriate editor program.

Clearly useful too.

best,
  john