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Tabs are bad only when you think they are spaces, or vice versa.

You have to _be_ the output device to get the tab expansion right, or
you would have to shun (prohibit) all kinds of non-printing characters
or character sequences from documents.  That's definitely a lot worse
than letting a tab remain a tab.

For some applications, a tab character is a separator between elements
that may contain spaces.

For some output devices, control sequences can set tabs at any
position on the line, some even individual tab stops for each line.
You don't want to emulate that.

All you know about a TAB is that it's horizontal (linear) white space.
You don't know how many, nor whether it erases what it skips.

Moral: Don't do anything with a TAB, it might mean something you
cannot anticipate.

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[Erik Naggum]					     <enag@ifi.uio.no>
Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway			   <erik@naggum.uu.no>