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

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Tue, 03 December 2019 16:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [art] New RFCs text formatting
From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:34:51 +0100
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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.

Grüße, Carsten

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