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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
Newsgroups: aus.tex,comp.text.tex
Subject: ASCII tabs in verbatim sections
Keywords: verbatim tabs
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.004537.6481@research.canon.oz.au>
Date: 27 Mar 91 00:45:37 GMT
Followup-To: andy@research.canon.oz.au
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
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We use LaTeX for software documentation and often need to include
pieces of source code in our documents, this is usually placed
between \begin{verbatim}, \end{verbatim} pairs, so far so good.
What is really annoying us is the treatment of ASCII tabs. Has
anyone made modifications to LaTeX's verbatim handling to process
ASCII tabs in a ``correct'' manner? i.e., tab stops every eight
spaces. I've had a look a style called cprog but this simply
replaces a tab with four spaces regardless of the current position
on the line, this is not really good enough for our purposes.
Any help would be appreciated.


-- 
Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au) Canon Info. Systems Research Australia
"X: 2. An over-sized, over-featured, over-engineered window system developed
at MIT and widely used on UNIX systems." from the jargon file.