Code Tag Whitespace

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  maximilion · Member · Jul 15, 2006 at 9:10 pm

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  I know a couple of blogging coder friends, and they seem to have ditched the built-in code tags and use their own plugins, using the WordPress software and their own hosts. I don’t have that option right now, though.

  The major disadvantage of the built-in code tag is that tabs and multiple spaces all get converted to one space, causing beautiful code to become unreadable and ugly.

  I’d like to humbly suggest that multiple spaces are treated as multiple spaces and that a tabsize option be added to the code tag? I.e. <code tabsize=8>my code</code>

  Any possibility for this?

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  sunburntkamel · Member · Jul 16, 2006 at 12:02 am

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  use
  <code><pre>
some code here
</pre></code>

  example:

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  maximilion · Member · Jul 16, 2006 at 6:43 pm

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  Hey kamel, great tip!

  I notice the tab size is 8, which should suit most ASCII texts, but not all. Any way to change it?

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  sunburntkamel · Member · Jul 16, 2006 at 7:49 pm

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  not really sure, no.
  pre stands for ‘preformatted’, so you could try just pasting in something with a different tab size, and seeing if it picks it up.

  i’m not much of an ASCII guy.

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  maximilion · Member · Jul 17, 2006 at 10:51 pm

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  ASCII has no tab size information, no. Each tab is just an ASCII code 9 character. So I guess not?

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  engtech · Member · Jul 17, 2006 at 11:13 pm

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  You could use a text editor that converts tabs to spaces on the fly and then use the code/pre tags.

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  engtech · Member · Jul 17, 2006 at 11:14 pm

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  Have you tried just using the pre tags without the code tag? That’s how I normally put code in HTML.