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>
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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
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John C Klensin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Carsten Bormann
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John Levine
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Claudio Allocchio
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Paul Hoffman
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Julian Reschke
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Jeffrey Yasskin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Marc Petit-Huguenin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Paul Hoffman
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John C Klensin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Julian Reschke
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Keith Moore
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John C Klensin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Keith Moore
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Bob Hinden
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Julian Reschke
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Carsten Bormann
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Keith Moore
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Julian Reschke
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John C Klensin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Carsten Bormann
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John Levine
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Julian Reschke
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Julian Reschke
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Henrik Levkowetz
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Carsten Bormann
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Keith Moore
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Joel M. Halpern
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Keith Moore
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Henrik Levkowetz
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Keith Moore
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John C Klensin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Joel Halpern Direct
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Phillip Hallam-Baker
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Nick Hilliard
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Keith Moore
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Scott O. Bradner
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Eric Heflin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Paul Hoffman
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Keith Moore
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John Levine
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John C Klensin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Scott O. Bradner
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Scott O. Bradner
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Scott O. Bradner
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Julian Reschke
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Brian Carpenter
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Salz, Rich
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John C Klensin
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Carsten Bormann
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting Salz, Rich
- Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [art] N… Julian Reschke
- Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [ar… John C Klensin
- Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [ar… Carsten Bormann
- Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [ar… John C Klensin
- Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [ar… Julian Reschke
- Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting John C Klensin