Re: [docbook-apps] Treatment of tabs in programlisting in FO output

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 02:18:54PM +0200, Joachim Ziegler wrote:
> In a <programlisting> I include a Makefile by
> 
> <programlisting><textobject><textdata 
> fileref="Makefile"/></textobject></programlisting>
> 
> which contains the usual tabs in the commands of a rule.
> 
> Both in HTML and FO output, these tabs are preserved.
> 
> This looks fine in HTML because they are surreounded by a <pre>.
> 
> But XEP converts these tabs inside the fo:block into only one whitespace 
> character.
> 
> Is this correct? So I have to substitute the tabs by 8 white spaces 
> myself? Or is it an error of XEP (or the stylesheets)?

This question was asked on the XEP support mailing list
and got no response:

http://xep.xattic.com/lists/xep-support/0635.html

You might want to try them again.
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