Re: [Po4a-devel]Canonizing tabs

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:27:58AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > And from memory, the groff behaviour is to consider as verbatim any > paragraph containing a white char (space or tab) at the first position of > any line (not only the first one). I could not find any reference in the info groff, but experimentally, I would say it's only spaces, and on any line except the first one. I fact, I'm not really concerned by tabs at the beginning of lines, but in their middle.

> I think that this patch won't break anything. I launched the testsuite/check script before and after the patch. The patch changes the result for 5 pages: metamail.1 mimencode.1 This pages are buggy. totem.1 There were already a po4a bug for this one (due to tabs) syslog-ng.conf.5 sane-avision.5 Not an important change (I would say these page is buggy) So, that's what I feared and hoped: there are some differences, but on buggy (or quite) man pages. I'm quite uncomfortable with totem, because the author tried very hard to use tabs as a formatting tool (using .ta). But that makes only one page out of 5000. However, I may try to detect when these tabs are used for formatting. Given the advantages for the other formats, I now think it is better to use it.