This is one of the things that causes me to prefer tabs over spaces for leading indents. With tabs you set how much space each indent involves, and it's easy to line things up properly. With non-monospaced fonts, spaces are apt to not work at all, and if they do work, the amount of spacing is uncontrollably variable.
If you can guarantee that the text will always be displayed in your chosen font, then it's only a matter of the bother of hitting the space bar so often, and it's designed and positioned for that, but if the fonts can't be chosen, then that just doesn't work. Some people have some sort of religious commitment to spaces rather than tabs, but fortunately there's a utility that can be used to process the files before you hand them off.
-- Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday March 13 2018, @05:55PM
This is one of the things that causes me to prefer tabs over spaces for leading indents. With tabs you set how much space each indent involves, and it's easy to line things up properly. With non-monospaced fonts, spaces are apt to not work at all, and if they do work, the amount of spacing is uncontrollably variable.
If you can guarantee that the text will always be displayed in your chosen font, then it's only a matter of the bother of hitting the space bar so often, and it's designed and positioned for that, but if the fonts can't be chosen, then that just doesn't work. Some people have some sort of religious commitment to spaces rather than tabs, but fortunately there's a utility that can be used to process the files before you hand them off.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.