Robert Dodier writes:
> 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.
>
Very good idea.
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