On 4/6/07, van Nek <van.nek at arcor.de> wrote:
> Am 5 Apr 2007 um 17:15 hat Robert Dodier geschrieben:
>
> > (2) The Maxima ascii art pretty-printer outputs tab characters
> > (and assumes the tab stops are 8 characters apart).
> > You might try substituting spaces for tabs in the copied text.
> > Maybe that will preserve alignment better.
>
> Yes, 8 characters. I always do this substitution when using ascii output from xMaxima.
>
> Is it possible to get an "untabbified" output from xMaxima?
Well, I'm in favor of simply outputting space characters instead of tabs.
After glancing at the display code it looks like literal tabs are output
in a couple of places (and both in 2-d and 1-d display code).
I'll see what it would take to replace the tabs with spaces.
all the best,
Robert