ronch@TAURUS.BITNET (02/21/91)
Does any body know how to make BRIEF treat indentation differently from tabulation ? What I specifically need is to make the indentation work in jumps of 3, (as in indentation of loops in programs) and by inserting the necessary number of spaces, whereas whenever the character '\t' (ASCII 9) appears in the text, it should reserve space up to the next multiple of 8 (as is the default in any display device), so that when I read files which contain tab characters, they should look the same as when I print them. If you have a solution / an idea, and you prefer to reply by email, please reply to porter3@taunivm.tau.ac.il and not to this address. Thanx in advance Nimrod (using a friend's login)
todd@toolz.uucp (Todd Merriman) (02/23/91)
ronch@TAURUS.BITNET writes: >Does any body know how to make BRIEF treat indentation differently >from tabulation ? >What I specifically need is to make the indentation work in jumps of 3, Either: Use a print program the expands tabs to spaces and sets the tabstop at 3. or Force Brief to use spaces instead of tabs, and set Brief tabstops to 3. If you like, I will send you a print program that will do the above, for MSDOS or Interactive Unix. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Todd Merriman - Software Toolz, Inc. * Maintainer of the * * 8030 Pooles Mill Dr., Ball Ground, GA 30107-9610 * Software * * ...emory.edu!toolz.uucp!todd * Entrepreneur's * * V-mail (800) 869-3878, (404) 889-8264 * mailing list * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *